Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
TheWomen (2024) by Kristin Hannah This latest novel from master storyteller Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds , depicts the experiences of young women serving in Vietnam and the life of one particular Army nurse both during and after the war. The story tracks her transformation from an uptight and sheltered young idealistic enlistee into a talented surgical nurse, and then her return and acclimation to a country that is both changed and politically divided. Tuesday, April 30 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12579 • $30
Absolution (2023) by Alice McDermott This New York Times bestseller recounts the fictional interior lives of two American corporate wives, unencumbered by the virtue of humility, living in Saigon in the years before the Vietnam War, and the legacy of their charitable attempts to "do good" for the Vietnamese. Sixty years later, as one of the two wives reconnects with the daughter of the other, the shared memories yield a reckoning about the wives' altruistic efforts that parallel the unintended consequences of America's involvement in Southeast Asia's political landscape. McDermott's ninth novel contains pithy observations and a Barbie doll-centric plot device as it captures in absorbing detail the folly of the expat socialite lifestyle and white savior complex. Pair this course with the author visit with Alice McDermott ( Course 12590 ), also in the schedule. Separate registration is required. Tuesday, May 28 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12580 • $30
Wandering Stars (2024) by Tommy Orange Wandering Stars (2024) is the masterful and eagerly anticipated follow-up to Tommy Orange's debut novel There There, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, and the American Book Award. Picking up the story in the shattering aftermath of the Oakland powwow shooting of Orvil Red Feather, this companion fiction continues to display Orange's powerful and poetic storytelling skills in his portrayal of modern urban Native American identity. Dispossession, drug abuse, forced assimilation, and the lingering wounds of history come alive in wrenching detail as Orange connects the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present sorrow and rage of the Cheyenne.
Tuesday, June 11 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12581 • $30
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