The Common Good Book Club discusses "Asunder"

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The Common Good Book Club meets to discuss Asunder, by Chloe Aridjis, whose writing Junoz Diaz calls "hypnotic," containing "the power of dreams." RSVP in person at Common Good Books or email Colin [at] commongooodbooks.com. You bring the opinions, we'll supply the wine and cheese! 

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Marie's job as
a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always
wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed
corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings
whose power belies their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her
great-grandfather Ted, the museum guard who slipped and fell moments before
reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the
gallery's masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.

After nine
years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change
comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an
uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is
torn open.