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Great Books - November
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - book cover

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
November 11, 2009 - Session Full
and November 18, 2009

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a story about Juliet Ashton, an English author who, in 1946, is looking for a new writing project. She finds it in a letter from one Dawsey Adams who’d come across her name inside the cover of a second-hand book. Juliet and Dawsey, a native of the island of Guernsey, become pen pals. Before long, Juliet is exchanging letters with some of Dawsey’ s friends as well. They’re all members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and, as their stories unfold, Juliet finds herself filled with a desire to sail to Guernsey and meet them.What she discovers is a wonderful, somewhat eccentric group of people and a life she didn’ t imagine.

Menu

Appetizer: Channel Island crab cakes
Salad: Tossed salad
Entree: Pig Roast with BBQ Sauce, red skin Au-gratin, and green beans
Dessert: Sweet potato peel pie

Presenter

Susannah Locke is a professor emeritus at the MSOE 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 many South American and European countries.  She has led several Great Books discussions; the most recent were those of The Inheritance of Loss, Water for Elephants and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

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