A book has been selected for the October Book Club meeting. We will be reading Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. We will gather together on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. at Debra Abramson’s home in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Debra will be hosting so please RSVP to her at RNEE@comcast.net so we know who how many will be attending.
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Sarah’s Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family’s apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France’s past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl’s ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel’ d’Hiv’ to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah’s past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.
Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.
Additional Book Club Dates:
November 23, 2019 at 6:30 pm – Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
December 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm – Various Holiday Classics
We are always looking for author/book suggestions. Please either come to a book club meeting or send in your suggestions so that we can include them with the others. Remember, if your book suggestion is chosen, you’re the next host/hostess!
St. Andrew’s Society of Mid-Maryland
2019 Calendar Events
The St. Andrew’s Society of Mid-Maryland (SASMM) sponsors a variety of events each year and participates in others. Bear with us while we confirm the 2019 dates, but check out the 2018 calendar for an idea of when and where and join us! There is something for everyone!
April
National Tartan Day – April 6 Tartan Day Festival Lions Yard Sale –
Southern Maryland Celtic Festival – 4th Saturday, traveling tent available (reciprocal agreement)
May
Spring Kirkin’ – May 5th Frederick Presbyterian Church
Fairhill Games – normally third weekend, tent available
June
Garrett County Games –
Celtic Night at the Keys
British Car Show – 1st Sunday
September
Fall Kirkin
Virginia Scottish Games – Labor Day weekend (reciprocal agreement)
In The Street – 2nd Saturday
Ligonier Highland Games, traveling tent
October
Richmond Games – usually 3rd or 4th Saturday
November
Maryland Irish Festival – 10th-12th
December
Scottish Christmas Walk – 1st Saturday
Kris Kringle Procession – 2nd Friday
Lads and Lassies –13th
Hogmanay – 31st