Online: Book Club Meeting

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (2016; 176 pages; fiction)
Please join on Zoom for our discussion. And, feel free to join us for socializing anytime between 9:30 and 10:00. The meeting begins promptly at 10:00.

From Amazon.com:
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.