The winner for November/December selection is Travels With My Aunt, by Graham Greene (published first in 1969 and republished multiple times since), grabbing 26 votes. Second place was Three Short Stories from Home For Christmas, by Miriam LeBlanc, who pulled in 17 votes. While Fredrick Bachman’s work titled My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She is Sorry, picked up 9 votes. A small review below may entice you to pick up and read.
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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We will meet on Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 2:00 PM in the Fr. Simon Room. No need to pack for this trip. Until then, get your atlas and Baedeker out and follow Henry and his Aunt Augusta as they travel the globe.