December 2023 Book, Crossing to Safety
Talk About Books meets every third Wednesday of the month at the Guilford Free Library at 6:30. On December 20th we will be discussing Wallace Stegner's novel, Crossing to Safety. Stegner is known as one of the "grand masters of American fiction". Set during the Depression in the mid 1930's, this is the story of two couples who form a fast, lifelong friendship. There is the open, couple from the West, with talents and dreams, but no prospects or connections who meets an open couple from the East with wealth, lakeside cottages, long lines of family certainties and generosity. Through the magic of friendship, what could have been a story of dreams and broken lives becomes a story of acceptance and affirmation. Stegner writes of the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness and about how much forgiveness can ever be given, or asked.