Reader recommendation: Hunting the Wild Pineapple

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

January 30, 2014

I am reading Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley. I am reading it because it talks about life in the 1950s and 60s. Many of my coworkers are 60-plus and I am more than 15 years younger. This book does explain the extreme views some of them have.