The next book we will be reading will be
Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka.
Here is a synopsis from Amazon:
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget...
Thanks to Mort for this recommendation.
We will meet at 3:00PM at the
Tide Tables Cafe , 2 The Archways, Riverside, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1TH Phone: 020 8948 8285. It is right along the river and the seating is all outside. You can reach Richmond by overland train from Waterloo or Clapham Junction or by District line on the tube. The cafe is about a 10 minute walk from the train station.
Looking forward to another fun meeting!
