Book Discussion: Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy

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Our July 18, 2023 discussion is on "The Illusion of Separateness" by Simon Van Booy

About the book: Award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a  harrowing and enchanting story of how one man's act of mercy during  World War II changed the lives of a group of strangers, and how they  each eventually discover the astonishing truth of their connection  Whether  they are pursued by Nazi soldiers, old age, shame, deformity, disease,  or regret, the varied characters of Simon Van Booy's utterly compelling  novel The Illusion of Separateness discover in their darkest moments of  fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone,  that every human being is a link in an unseen chain.  This  gripping, emotional story intertwines the stories of several compelling  characters: a deformed German infantryman; a lonely British film  director; a young, blind museum curator; Jewish-American newlyweds  separated by war; a lost child on the brink of starvation; and a  caretaker at a retirement home for actors in Santa Monica. The same  world moves beneath each of them, and one by one, through seemingly  random acts of selflessness, they discover the vital parts they have  played in each other's lives, a realization that shatters the illusion  of their separateness.