Book Club: Our books editor Athena McKenzie gives the down-low on the new releases this month…

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj (Knopf Canada) With elements of tragedy and comedy, this novel follows the adventures of Samuel, a young immigrant from Trinidad who uses the lore of his beloved comic books to help him navigate his unfamiliar and strange surroundings in Toronto.

Yalta: The Price of Peace by S.M. Plokhy (Viking Adult) The Harvard professor delivers a gripping look at the eight days in February 1945 when the future of the world was deliberated upon by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Based on unique archival research, this book challenges the conventional conclusions about this historical summit.

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking U.S.A.) Taking off from where her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love left off, this work is a personal account of the author’s intellectual struggle with marrying again after a brutal divorce. It is a no-holds-barred look at matrimony and all it entails.
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins) The Pulitzer-shortlisted novelist has written a disquieting story about a crumbling marriage. When a woman discovers her husband is reading her diary, she starts writing a false journal to use as a manipulative weapon. Erdrich interweaves the real and fake journals, along with a third-person narrative,
to portray a family at the edge of self-destruction.

Dancing in the Dark by Ronald Keast, PhD (iUniverse) Astudy of the extraordinary theories of quantum mechanics that looks to explain the nature of reality and truth or, as the subtitle eloquently phrases it, “The ‘Waltz in Wonder’ of Quantum Metaphysics.”

– Athena McKenzie-Parkin

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