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
Long Island (2024) by Colm Tóibín This much anticipated sequel to Brooklyn (2009) and companion to Nora Webster (2014) marks the return of fictional heroine Eilis Lacey, whose emigration from Ireland in the early 1950s was the subject of the earlier work. Now married to Tony, an Italian American plumber, and living on a cul-de-sac with her husband's extended family as neighbors, Eilis is in her forties raising two teenage children. When an Irishman comes to the door telling her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child, Eilis's and Tony's family's disparate responses to this news set in motion a marital crisis. Eilis embarks on a trip back to Ireland for the first time in 20 years, rekindling the bonds with the place and people she had left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she had lost.
Tuesday, June 11 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12581 • $30
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