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Alumni Book Group: Rebecca Coleman, THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD

Alumni Book Group: Rebecca Coleman, THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD

English | Center for Literary and Comparative Studies Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Tawes Hall, 2115

THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD by Rebecca Coleman is the subject for May's meeting.

thekingdomofchildhood

From Amazon:

The Kingdom of Childhood is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother's extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what Zach does not realize is that their relationship is—for Judy—only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets.

Rebecca Coleman's manuscript for The Kingdom of Childhood was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. An emotionally tense, increasingly chilling work of fiction set in the controversial Waldorf school community, it is equal parts enchanting and unsettling and is sure to be a much-discussed and much-debated novel.

Meetings for 2013-2014 will remain on third Thursdays at 6:30 pm: September 19, October 17, November 21, January 16, February 20, March 20, April 17, May 15. The current schedule is available here:

https://www.english.umd.edu/AlumniBookGroup



Hope you can join us!  As always, newcomers & drop-in visitors welcome, and light refreshments will be served.

 

Add to Calendar 05/15/14 6:30 PM 05/15/14 8:30 PM America/New_York Alumni Book Group: Rebecca Coleman, THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD

THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD by Rebecca Coleman is the subject for May's meeting.

thekingdomofchildhood

From Amazon:

The Kingdom of Childhood is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother's extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what Zach does not realize is that their relationship is—for Judy—only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets.

Rebecca Coleman's manuscript for The Kingdom of Childhood was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. An emotionally tense, increasingly chilling work of fiction set in the controversial Waldorf school community, it is equal parts enchanting and unsettling and is sure to be a much-discussed and much-debated novel.

Meetings for 2013-2014 will remain on third Thursdays at 6:30 pm: September 19, October 17, November 21, January 16, February 20, March 20, April 17, May 15. The current schedule is available here:

https://www.english.umd.edu/AlumniBookGroup



Hope you can join us!  As always, newcomers & drop-in visitors welcome, and light refreshments will be served.

 

Tawes Hall

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Karen Nelson
knelson@umd.edu