![]() He seems unphased by this, and begins an affair with a former coworker the day after his mother’s funeral. Meursault, the protagonist, discovers that his mother died in a home for the elderly. The plot is simple to the point of allegory. But I can say unreservedly that The Stranger changed my life. Even the first sentence – “Mother died today” – is infamously callous. It’s hard to describe experiencing such an emotional reaction to The Stranger, because the book is starkly unemotional throughout. I read it at least once a year, and even though it’s short and sparse, I get something new out of it every time. The Stranger, by Albert Camus, is by far my favorite book. First Friday Salon Talks at the Rose O’Neill House.Symposium with The Missouri Humanities Council: Humanities and the Future.Symposium with The Missouri Humanities Council: Humanities and Democracy.Reading Discussion Series: Winter Break Read. ![]() ![]() Symposium with the Missouri Humanities Council: Humanities & Water. ![]()
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Then there’s a massive explosion at O’Hare and Kate becomes a target. As Dave begins to work a case he and Kate are embroiled in, he falls hard. Through a criminal fluke, she meets Dave Richman, a character we first see in the prequel to the O’Malley books, Danger in the Shadows. She’s ferociously tough, tenaciously protective of her family and one of those rare characters that shines through every page with just a few magical words of description or dialogue. She’s a Chicago PD negotiator (the clue was in the title). In this first novel we meet the seven, but the focus falls on Kate. Each of the siblings works on the front lines in some capacity. This allows Henderson to infuse each novel with a very different back-story. ![]() None of them are related by blood, which is a great twist. ![]() The Negotiator begins a magnificent series about the O’Malley brothers and sisters. I have lost half days and sometimes half the night quite easily. Don’t even consider opening a Dee Henderson book if you have anything important to do. The Negotiator is a jaw-dropping work of creativity. ![]() |