Book Salad

Welcome to 'Book Salad'.

Meeting on the last Tuesday of every month, our 'Book Salad' group is dedicated to picking up books from different genres and saying, 'Let's try this one'. To make a salad you put together lots of different things you'd like to eat. Instead of reading one kind of book every month, we mix genres. Although we read mostly imaginative fiction, occasionally we pick a non-fiction, even more occasionally a graphic novel, by authors from different ages and backgrounds.

For our next book, we are reading 'The Plot Against America' by Philip Roth. Here's the blurb from the publisher:

'Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything...'

When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an 'understanding' with the Nazis promising peace between the two nations.

Growing up in the 'ghetto' of Newark, Philip Roth recounts his childhood caught in the stranglehold of this counterfactual nightmare. As America sinks into its own dark metamorphosis and Jewish families are torn apart, fear and uncertainty spread.

Who really is President Lindbergh?

And to what end has he hijacked America?