I AM Modern Magazine for Moms

The Modern Book Club’s first selection will be Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders. This story belongs to Anna Frith, an eighteen-year-old widow and mother of two young sons, and the people of her small English village. The year is 1666 and a neighbor has referred a lodger to Anna. Grateful for the extra money, Anna accepts the lodger and soon finds him a merry addition to her mourning household. She also discovers that he brings them the plague. As the disease spreads through the village, Anna works to comfort those who are ill, quell those who panic and guide those who despair. She is no mere angel of mercy, though. Kindled by an independent and practical mind, Anna learns that surviving requires breaking with tradition—repeatedly. This is Brooks’ first work of fiction; her second, March, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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