Book Club

Sun., Feb. 28, 1999

Name: TMC Book Club

City: Spokane:

Group history: Group of six married couples has been together, in one form or another, for four years. Meets more or less monthly, rotating between members’ houses. Host couple prepares dinner. Group reads a blend of fiction and nonfiction, with host couple determining that evening’s choice and leading the discussion.

Book reviewed: “She’s Come Undone” (Washington Square Publishing, 465 pages, $14 paper, ISBN 0-6710-037-55) by Wally Lamb.

Group representative: Mary Pat Treuthart

The review: Book centers on troubled Dolores Price, whose story Lamb follows from childhood to early middle-age. A traumatic experience, plus the loss of her father, plagues Dolores, who struggles to find the simple kinds of joys in life that many of us take for granted. The range of opinions was wide, from one member who stopped reading at page 50 to those who admired Lamb’s ability to write from a woman’s point of view. “I think that there were some things about Dolores that didn’t necessarily make her a completely sympathetic character,” Treuthart says. “But I think everyone appreciated the fact that she was a survivor.”

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