Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
Kairos (2021) by Jenny Erpenbeck, Translated from German by Michael Hofmann This great post-unification novel tells the story of a fated romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s between a nineteen-year old girl and a married writer in his fifties. Their intellectually and emotionally complicated relationship disintegrates in tandem with the collapse of East Germany. At once bleak and beautiful, this story chronicles the couple's affair against this political backdrop with moving portrayals of love, obsession, cruelty, power, and loss. Wednesday, June 12 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12509 • $30
Beyond That, the Sea (2023) by Laura Spence-Ash This debut novel centers around an 11-year-old girl from a working-class family evacuated from England to live with a Boston family during World War II, only to return to her own family in London after the war. The fiction then traces the next three decades in her life in which she experiences love, heartache, and understanding while belonging
simultaneously to two different families separated by an ocean. Wednesday, July 17 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12510 • $30
This Other Eden (2023) by Paul Harding Inspired by historical events on Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast, the third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. It tells the story of the fictional Apple Island and its inhabitants. The story begins in 1792 when formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, flee the mainland to make their home there. It then follows the Honeys' descendants and the diverse other inhabitants who move to this isolated and poor community with varied motives and purposes. With mesmerizing prose, Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters in a story of
resistance and survival in the face of intolerance and injustice. Wednesday, August 14 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12511 • $30
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