Helen Simonson signs her critically acclaimed debut novel, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. It is the story of a retired major living in the English countryside who strikes up an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, a Pakstani shopkeeper in his village.
The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?
Tuesday, May 11th - 7:00 p.m.
at The Book Stall
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