The Writers & Books-sponsored “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book” reaches its conclusion this week with events all around Monroe County. Please visit the for a complete list of all events.
In case you missed it, this year’s selection was The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean:
A wonderfully spare and elegant novel in which the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and memory of an elderly Russian woman suffering from Alzheimer’s. The novel shifts between two settings: 1941 Leningrad, when the city was surrounded by German troops, and the present-day, as Marina, who had been a docent at Leningrad’s Hermitage Museum during WWII, prepares for the wedding of her granddaughter off the coast of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest.
Published on March 28, 2012.
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