Kona Stories hosts a fiction book club discussing “The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman on Tuesday. ADVERTISING Kona Stories hosts a fiction book club discussing “The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman on Tuesday. The group meets at 6:30
Kona Stories hosts a fiction book club discussing “The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman on Tuesday.
The group meets at 6:30 p.m. at the store. Book groups are free if books are purchased at Kona Stories, or a $5 donation is requested.
A luminous, Marquez-esque tale from the New York Times bestselling author of “The Museum of Extraordinary Things,” “The Marriage of Opposites” is a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism.
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel has dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frederick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
Info: Brenda or Joy, 324-0350, www.konastories.com.
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