Copies of Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave are available at the Reference Desk. Stop by and pick up up! The group will meet on Wednesday July 18th at 1pm.
The "insightful, stark, and heartbreaking" (Publishers Weekly,
starred review) novel about three lives entangled during World War II
from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Bee. "Cleave's foray into historical fiction is both grand and intimate. The
novel's ability to stay small and quiet against the raging tableau of
war is what also makes it glorious….an absorbing account of survival,
racism, classism, love, and pain, and the scars left by all of
them…Cleave's prose is imbued with a Dickensian flair, deploying
brilliant metaphors and crackling dialogue." -- The New York Times Book
Review "With dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion, Cleave
paints a powerful portrait of war's effects on those who fight and
those left behind." -- People Book of the Week "The London Blitz is
cinematically re-imagined in a deeply moving new novel from Chris
Cleave. As he did in Little Bee , he places forthright characters in
impossible situations in Everyone Brave Is Forgiven , a story set during
World War II." --Carol Memmott, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"Magnificent and profoundly moving…This dazzling novel of World War II
is full of unforgettable characters and the keen emotional insights that
moved readers of Chris Cleave's Little Bee ." --Shelf Awareness
"Real, engaging characters, based loosely on Cleave's own grandparents,
come alive on the page. Insightful, stark, and heartbreaking, Cleave's
latest novel portrays the irrepressible hopefulness that can arise in
the face of catastrophe." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Among
all the recent fictions about the war, Cleave's miniseries of a novel
is a surprising standout, with irresistibly engaging characters." --
Kirkus Reviews "Beautifully written, funny, gut-wrenching, and, above
all, honest." -- The Daily Mail (UK) "Intensely felt…Full of insight
and memorably original phrasings." -- Booklist "Well crafted and
compelling…nostalgic and bittersweet." -- Library Journal. London,
1939. The day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school
unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw
decides to ignore the war--until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath
has unexpectedly enlisted. Then the conflict can no longer be avoided.
Young, bright, and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When
she is--bewilderingly--made a teacher, she finds herself defying
prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom,
meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and
Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways
they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and
passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and
dreams. Set in London during the years of 1939--1942, when citizens had
slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island
of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave
is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love
story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave's
grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against
the great theater of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small
battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most. ...publisher information
