Hello friends, I am back with your selection for December’s book club about my favorite season: the dead of winter.
The Sunlight Pilgrims (2016)
By: Jenni Fagan
Discussion date: 12/28/18*
*This is Christmastime and a lot of us will not actually be able to discuss on this date. But this being the internet, the discussion post will be available foooooorever. Or as long as the internet endures. So feel free to stop by whenever!
The premise:
It’s November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last.
There’s snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just off the coast of Scotland. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, frenzied London residents evacuate by the thousands for warmer temperatures down south. But not Dylan. Grieving and ready to build life anew, he heads north to bury his mother’s and grandmother’s ashes on the Scottish islands where they once lived.Hundreds of miles away, twelve-year-old Estella and her survivalist mother, Constance, scrape by in the snowy, mountainous Highlands, preparing for a record-breaking winter. Living out of a caravan, they spend their days digging through landfills, searching for anything with restorative and trading value. When Dylan arrives in their caravan park in the middle of the night, life changes course for Estella and Constance. Though the weather worsens, his presence brings a new light to daily life, and when the ultimate disaster finally strikes, they’ll all be ready.
Last year’s January book club was all about first contact. This year’s January book club is about the start of an epic journey, because surely 2019 will be one of those. I tried not to go with obvious ones like The Wheel of Time or The Lord of the Rings, so enjoy these (hopefully) not as obvious suggestions.
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