Oakmont Book Group The Oakmont Book Group is comprised of students and teachers who meet regularly to discuss a shared reading. The Group, through consensus, selects a book to read and then meets over a pot-luck to discuss the book. The selection for our March reading is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. From the Inside Flap: With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning work in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a superb novel with epic sweep, spanning continents and eras, a masterwork by one of America's finest writers. It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe and the world, the Golden Age of comic books has begun. The brilliant writing that has led critics to compare Michael Chabon to John Cheever and Vladimir Nabokov is everywhere apparent in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon writes "like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader," wrote Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times about Wonder Boys and here he has created, in Joe Kavalier, a hero for the century. ReadingGroupGuides, an online community for reading groups, provides several questions for discussion, and if you'd like to consider them as you read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, you can find them here. Our discussion/potluck will be at 6:30 PM on Monday, April 13th in the Guidance Conference Room. Previous Book Group Selections have included: Fifth Business The Shining A Confederacy of Dunces A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius The Golden Compass A Christmas Carol Carmilla Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The History of Love The Road Everything is Illuminated Under the Tuscan Sun Frankenstein I am the Messenger The Kite Runner The Dante Club Dracula All Oakmont students and faculty are welcome to join the Book Group for enjoyable book discussion and tasty food. For more information, please contact Mr. Anderson.