Season 3: Family
Season 3 of Books of Some Substance is underway and the subject of the year is family.
Read along with David and Nathan as we explore the subject of family in six great works of literature. From a small town in Russia to an imaginary Colombia, from the end of the 19th century to the dawn of the 21st, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, newlyweds and dynasties populate the pages of these books. The family serves as a microcosm of all the drama and moral quandaries of the human condition.
Join us as fellow readers as we dive into the complex biological bonds and inextricable spiritual threads that unite these six fictional families in the strange dance of life.
Season 3: Family
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Light Years by James Salter
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
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