Fiction’s Accidental Families: Empathy and Surprise
The opening of “Anna Karenina” declares “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Instead, this class focuses on families formed not by biology but by serendipity and rescue. Join us for a discussion of two provocative novels: Anne Michaels’ “Fugitive Pieces” with its rescued boy from the peat bog, and Gabrielle Zevin’s “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry” with its brainy toddler.
Dates and locations to be announced.