Welcome back, readers! We're excited today to show off our May Book Club selection. This month we're reading Emily's Ghost by Denise Giardina. This is a particular treat for us as she's a WV native author.
About the book-
A lustrous, beautifully written reimagining of the Brontë family―and of Emily Brontë’s passionate engagement with life. Enigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Brontë refuses to bow to the conventions of her day: she is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, and walks alone at night on the moors above the isolated rural village of Haworth. But Emily’s life, along with the rest of the Brontë family, is turned upside down with the arrival of an idealistic clergyman named William Weightman. Weightman champions poor mill workers’ rights, mingles with radical labor agitators, and captivates Haworth―and the Brontës especially―with his energy and charm. An improbable friendship between Weightman and Emily develops into a fiery but unconsummated love affair―and when tragedy strikes, the relationship continues, like the love story at the heart of Wuthering Heights, beyond the grave.Denise Giardina, whose fiction has been described as “brilliant. . . heart-wrenching, tough and tender”, writes a stirring story about faith, passion, longing, and romantic solitude.
This month's discussion will be held on Thursday, May 26th at 5 pm. We'll be holding it at Brooke County Library in Wellsburg as well as online virtually! Please call us for more info.
About the author-
Denise Giardina is an American novelist. Her book Storming Heaven was a Discovery Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and received the 1987 W. D. Weatherford Award for the best published work about the Appalachian South. The Unquiet Earth received an American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction. Her 1998 novel Saints and Villains was awarded the Boston Book Review fiction prize and was semifinalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. Giardina is an ordained Episcopal Church deacon, a community activist, and a former candidate for governor of West Virginia.
We did a full WV author profile on her on the blog a few months ago as well! Check it out.
Intrigued by the book and the author? Check out our Ebook copy on WV Reads!
As always, all images and info are courtesy of our OPAC system, Google, Wikipedia, WV Reads, and author webpages.
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