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Melissa writes: "My selection is a little weird, but highly recommended to me. The book is Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff.
It will be on Sunday 5/1 at 6-- I really hope everyone can make it. I am thinking tapas; bring your favorite appetizer. Mine will be meaty and fancy."
From the author:
"I like to joke that I am the child of a mixed marriage: North American and South American. My father was born in 1922 to a family of Midwestern dairy farmers. He entered the Lutheran ministry, and after the failure of his first marriage came east to work as a hospital chaplain in New York City. My mother, ten years younger, was a missionary?s daughter who grew up battling snakes and scorpions in the jungles of Brazil..." more
About the book:
Andrew Gage was "born" just two years ago, called into being to serve as the public face of a multiple personality. While Andrew deals with the outside world, over a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside his head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father-figure, who makes the rules; Adam, the mischievous teenager, who breaks them; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, the dark soul, who wants to get rid of Andrew and the others and run things on his own...more
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