Book Club Questions Year Of Wonders

Whether we also shall one day look back upon this year of flames germs and war as a year of wonders will depend perhaps on how many are able like the passengers on united flight 93 or the firefighters of new york city to match the courageous self sacrifice of the people of eyam.

Book club questions year of wonders. Reading guide for year of wonders by geraldine brooks discussion guide for book clubs. Study questions project ideas and discussion topics based on important themes running throughout year of wonders by geraldine brooks. A novel of the plague geraldine brooks 2002 knopf doubleday 308 pp.

Her 2011 novel caleb s crossing is inspired by the life of caleb cheeshahteaumauk a wampanoag convert to christianity who was the first native american to graduate from harvard college an achievement of the seventeenth century. 9780142001431 summary when an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from london to an isolated village a housemaid named anna frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Year of wonders is a historical fiction novel about a woman who rises to the challenge under the worst of circumstances.

Continued by that time we were living here brooks says referring to the tiny 200 people postcard perfect village of waterford whose small community evokes in many ways the traditional routines of eyam. In a piece published in the washington post after the september 11 2001 attacks you wrote. This novel is based on the true story of the village of eyam which isolated itself after becoming infected with the bubonic plague in 1666.

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As the protagonist anna frith works to help her friends.