May 15: \;The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nThe Great Gatsby\, F. Scott Fitzgerald&rsquo\;s third book\, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925\, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by ge nerations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan\, of lavish parties on Long Isl and at a time when The New York Times noted &ldquo\;gin was the national d rink and sex the national obsession\,&rdquo\; it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
\nJune 26: \;The Quiet American by Graham Greene
\n"I never knew a man who had better motives for a ll the trouble he caused\," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Ald en Pyle\, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most contr oversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon\, where the French Army stru ggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned po licies blunder into bloodshed\, Fowler\, a seasoned and cynical British re porter\, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fow ler's motives for intervening are suspect\, both to the police and himself \, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.
\nIn contemporary Russia\, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova has been drafted \;to become a " Sparrow"&mdash\;a spy trained in the art of seduction to elicit informatio n from their marks. She's been assigned to Nathaniel Nash\, a CIA officer who handles the organization's most sensitive penetration of Russian intel ligence. The two young intelligence officers\, trained in their respective spy schools\, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft\, deception a nd\, inevitably\, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens t heir careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.
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\nDid you know that all of our book clubs' select ed books count toward your Jax Stacks Reading Challenge completi on? Find out what books other book clubs are reading and j oin in the fun!
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