NJ Book Club - American Pastoral In-Person / Online
This month's title: "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth. Please register to receive the zoom link, or join us in person in the History Room.
From Goodreads: A novel that is an elegy for all the 20th century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him when his adored daughter, Merry, who has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl turns into a sullen, fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. Overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.
