Join the New Hope book group on Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow. The meeting will be held at the home of Julie and Sue, 5810 W. Greenleaf, Chicago.
The story of a family that moves from the rural home in Appalachia to Detroit, MI where the father hopes for a better way of living. His wife, Gertie, is not too sure. The family settles down in a tar paper shack by the railroad tracks in an industrial area. Gertie holds onto her homespun ways, one of which is through carving. One item that she hangs onto is a piece of a tree limb in which she sees a figure of Jesus calling to her to carve it from it. The piece of cherry wood with an emerging figure becomes a metaphor for Gertie herself.
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