Meeting in the time of Covid

ALL of us were there for our July virtual meeting to discuss how disappointing we found "A Long Petal of the Sea" by Isabel Allende. Everyone of us (who had read the book) thought it was badly written. Ann had the insight that maybe the task of combining fiction and history was just beyond the author. The historical details were fascinating and seemed well researched: the Spanish War, the treatment of the interned refugees from that war in France, Pablo Neruda's mission to bring a ship of Spanish refugees to Chile. Too bad about the goofy novel laid over these events.

Our book for August is "The Muse" by Jessie Burton.