Master Butcher's Singing Club

The Master Butcher's Singing Club is our selection for our spring book forum. Louise Erdrich deserves the high praise she receives from literary critics and casual readers alike for her vivid characters and compelling plot lines. My wife and I tried to share a copy but we kept swiping it from each other. "Hey, where is that book - I want to read it tonight." It is one of those books that you want to keep reading once you start.

I grew up in South Dakota, and so I am familiar with the stoicism necessary to endure the harsh landscape of this novel. And, I can empathize with the characters as they discover each other's secrets and rely on each other's support during the unexpected twists and turns of their tightly scripted and yet strangely ad-hoc lives. I highly recommend curling up with The Master Butcher's Singing Club on a cold January day and letting yourself get lost in the story.

Be sure to contact Melissa Flannery to sign up. Cost is $5 to help cover the cost of refreshments, and the university picks up the cost of your book. We meet in the Training Room in the Humanities Building at 2:30 pm on either Thursday, February 19th or Friday, February 20th.