Books from Ginny

Ginny sent me this last month 
“I just finished reading a book for my book group entitled “Empty Chairs.”  It’s written by a Madison author, Anne Davidson Keller.  I really liked it and I thought you might enjoy it too.  It takes place in 1944 and is about a family living on a farm in North Carolina.  It’s told from the perspective of the youngest boy - age 11-13.  It was easy to get into and I found it to be a fast read. “
I didn’t find this at the Milwaukee Library, but it is available from Amazon as a paperback or on Kindle.  Sounds good.

Another book Ginny mentioned that her group read is Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle.  Her group liked it. I read it when it first come out.  Has anyone else read it?  I don’t think we’ve read any of his books in bookclub. 
This is what Wikipedia and the Chicago Tribune have to say about it.

The Tortilla Curtain is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. In 1997 it was awarded the French Prix Médicis 
Étranger prize for best foreign novel. 


"A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy."
--Chicago Tribune
Jackie