From The Avid Reader Show, Sam’s latest interviews from a history of over 450 interviews over the past decade:
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is set in a boarding school in New Hampshire where we meet Ben and his unique teacher, Pierre LaVerdere, who teaches reason and the art of skirting around the truth. Though Pierre’s students leave him, he never really leaves them. It’s not difficult to relate to Ben, when Ben leaves boarding school he wonders as we all often do with periods of our lives – what did that experience really mean? His whole life shaped by a couple of years … why? When you read the book that why will be answered. Listen to the podcast: THE AVID READER