Book Club 'Sold on a Monday'

 

Today was my PEO book club day.  Rather that tell the story I will share the Amazon synopsis:

"A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN A MILLION COPIES SOLD—Sold on a Monday is the unforgettable book-club phenomenon, inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 

"A masterpiece that poignantly echoes universal themes of loss and redemption...both heartfelt and heartbreaking."—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale

2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices.

For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences are more devastating than he ever imagined.

Inspired by an actual newspaper photograph that stunned the nation, Sold on a Monday has celebrated five months on the New York Times bestsellers list . . ."

With the majority of my book club buddies being children of Depression Era parents we each had stories to relate.  Stories that our parents had repeated several times through the years. The difficult years of our parents growing up in a time when children were as much farm hands for the family as humans.  In this day and time there are still children being sold.  There are still children that work in sweat shops. Even children indoctrinated to be soldiers.  Those children treated in that manner are not be as visible in the US as in the Depression years.  They are still there and in many nations in great abundance.  

Would you sell your child if you were faced with no way to feed or clothe them?  What would you do as a single parent (because your spouse had died) with your own terminal illness with no support group to care for the children?  You can read this book with all its twists and turns to see how this all plays out in that imaginary world of the author.

Happy reading,

Janice