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.