Book: All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr

The Lake Fellowship Book Group meets the third Sunday evening of the month unless otherwise posted. On occasion, the date may change to a different Sunday as decided by the members. The books to be read and discussed are selected by the members. Members read the same book each month, and that book is readily available either at a public library, on an e-reader, or in paperback. The individual who selects a book generally leads the discussion about that book. Books are selected looking forward 6 months, and the selections are posted in case members want to read ahead. All are welcome to the group, and everyone has time to talk. Come to discuss just one particular book every month.

The group meets at 7:00 pm at the home of one of the members. One person has offered to host over the years, so concern about hosting should keep no one away. Call Beatriz Aguerrevere for directions to the home of the host.

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

by Anthony Doerr 4.6 out of 5 stars    24,890 customer reviews

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

 More Detail: Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).