Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25
Book Chat with Anna Katsavos Join fellow fiction enthusiasts to discuss critically acclaimed novels.
ANNA KATSAVOS , PhD, is an experienced book group facilitator. A SUNY Professor Emerita of English Literature and Women’s Studies, she has received numerous awards for teaching, and her scholarship has been published in a variety of literary journals. She has interviewed many best-selling authors and has presented interactive programs focusing on a wide range of women’s issues. Additionally, she conducts writing, editing and publishing workshops. 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, October 29 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12581 • $30
James (2024) by Percival Everett This class focuses on Percival Everett's acclaimed novel James , an action-packed reimagining of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , indelibly narrated from the point of view of the enslaved Jim and brimming with lacerating humor and keen observations that define Everett's distinctive style. Upon learning that he is about to be sold and forever separated from his wife and daughter, James hides to formulate an escape plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father. Thus begins their dangerous and life-changing journey by raft down the Mississippi River, where encounters with an evolving cast of characters continually expose the absurdities and injustice of racism on the eve of the Civil War. Throughout, James's intelligence and compassion shine in a radically new light. Tuesday, November 12 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12894 • $30
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The Safekeep (2024) by Yael van der Wouden This debut novel, set in 1961 in the Netherlands, is one of six books short-listed for the 2024 Booker Prize. Isabel lives an isolated but routine life in her late mother's country home in a rural Dutch province, rebuilt after the end of World War II. Her brother, the lawful owner of the house, invites his latest girlfriend Eva to stay there for the summer while he is away. Drama ensues as the two female protagonists are at once victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in what is both a psychological thriller and queer love story and each object in the house becomes an emotional land mine. Tuesday, December 17 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12915 • $30
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