Literary Seminar Series: The Summer Book
THIS SESSION IS ONLINE
Best-selling author, Ph.D. and former adjunct professor at Berkeley, Kimberly Ford is eager to exploreThe Summer Book by Tove Jansson as the second installment in the summer Literary Seminar Series. Each week the group will read a portion of the book and then convene with Ford who will provide insightful interpretation and deeper understanding of the novella.
Enjoy a deep dive into The Summer Book in three 60-minute virtual sessions. Please read the first one-third of the book for the first class.
3 Seminars included in the Series:
* July 1 - 4:00 PM
* July 8 - 4:00 PM
* July 15 - 4:00 PM
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
After England, we will make our literary way north to a remote Finnish isle where young Sophia and her grandmother spend long summer days in all sorts of very Scandinavian ways. Images of nature are so incredibly appealing in this slim masterpiece and direct, spare prose makes the book feel light, but with an enormous emotional pay off. This irresistible novella is worth reading just to suss out how Jansson manages to make her narrative stance feel so easy but so wide-ranging. This book is so charming and dark and unusual and hilarious that you will want to read everything else that Jansson has written. We will make very good use of all three of our one-hour sessions, each of which will convince you of Jansson’s unique and ultra-appealing talent.
Book will be shipped directly to you so that you may read it prior to the seminar.