BASS Book Club
Thu 06 Feb
|Noksapyeong-daero 40-gil
Small Things Like These is a novel by Claire Keegan that tells the story of an ordinary middle-aged man - Bill Furlong - who in December 1985, in a small Irish town, slowly grasps the enormity of the local convent's heartless treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies.
Time & Location
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 – 13:30
Noksapyeong-daero 40-gil, 48 Noksapyeong-daero 40-gil, Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea
About the event
Join us on Thursday, February 6th from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Buddha's Belly Thai restaurant in Itaewon to discuss Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
As we read this book, we will accompany Furlong, as he realises what is happening, decides how he must in conscience act, and accepts what that action, in a small church-dominated town, will cost him, his wife and his children. This book is not so much about the nature of evil as the circumstances that allow it. More than Furlong’s quiet heroism, it explores the silent, self-interested complicity of a whole community, which makes it possible for such cruelty to persist. It forces every reader to ask what they are doing about the injustices that we choose not to think about too closely. Astonishingly, Keegan achieves this without ever sounding angry or preachy.
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