If you could have dinner with any five people, living or dead, who would you pick?
In Rebecca Serle’s novel, “The Dinner List,” the protagonist finds herself at dinner with the five people from a list she penned years earlier, including the deceased Audrey Hepburn.
I have to admit, that I was skeptical in the opening chapter of the book. Partly because the dinner list concept seems a little played out. It’s not a new concept or a particularly mind-bending idea, so I doubted if Serle was going to advance the discussion in a novel direction.
But I finished the book with my mind stretched in pleasant ways.
If you’ve never given this dinner list concept any thought before, and even if you have, I would encourage you to do so. Who would you invite? Why those people?
Read the book.
Return to your previous ruminations.
And bring your thoughts to the next First Thursday Book Discussion, on January 4, 2024.
Author Rebecca Serle will also appear live as part of the DBRL Online Author Series on Wednesday, January 10 at 7 p.m. Visit the author series site to register.
