The Reading Life: Re-Reading The Reader: Book Clubs, Reading Aloud, and the Many Faces of Aunt Betsy

MARY JO SALTER
We bemoan the political landscape. We catch each other up on the doings of our grown children.  We even do each other the touching favor of recounting affectionate stories about each other’s parents—all gone now, but unbelievably young when we first met them. Our own experiences of parenthood loom large.