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The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht February 15, 2012 Téa Obreht combines superstition and legend with the harsher realities of ignorance and war to create a tale of life and death in an unnamed land. The novel’s narrator is Natalia Stefanovi, a young doctor who crosses the “new” border with a fellow doctor to inoculate orphans. While there, she searches for answers about the disappearance and death of her beloved grandfather, also a physician, who had raised her on tales of the deathless man, a tiger that escaped from the zoo during the German bombardment in 1941, and a mysterious deaf-mute woman who, villagers believed, was the tiger’s wife. How Obreht weaves the threads of these stories into a beautiful tapestry has garnered her critical acclaim.

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Presenter

Susannah Locke is a professor emerita at the Milwaukee School of Engineering where she taught communication and literature courses for seventeen years. Before that, she taught at Cardinal Stritch University, MATC, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Concordia University, and Marquette University. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Marquette University. A love of travel has taken her and her husband to many places including China, Russia, Egypt, and several South American and European countries. She has led several Great Books discussions; the most recent were those of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The White Tiger, The Help, and Olive Kitteridge.

Menu
Appetizer - Cheese and Spinach Bureks
Soup/salad - Balkan Salad-(mixed lettuce, vegetables, feta cheese)
Entrée - Yugoslavian Chicken with Cabbage and Noodles
Dessert - Baklava with Ice Cream


Registration
You may register and pay online for any Great Book session. Look for the red "register online" button on each book's web page. Alternately, you can download this Great Books registration form (Adobe Acrobat Reader software required) to fill out and mail in with your payment. Reserve your space for one or all of the monthly discussions!

All Great Books programs are scheduled on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. in MSOE's historic Alumni Partnership Center.

To receive a Great Books brochure or for more information about the Great Books Series, contact Cathy Varebrook at (414) 277-4523 or via email.