Miss Tita

What did you think of Miss Tita's character? I was struck when the narrator said it was "impossible to overestimate her simplicity." Were you surprised that she ultimately destroyed the papers she had been helping the narrator to secure?

Next pick: "The Accompanist"

This is a 1936 novella by Russian writer Nina Berberova, who lived in Paris between the two World Wars before moving to the States and a career teaching Russian literature at Yale and Princeton. I thought it looked intriguing (love! jealousy! desire! plotting!). First week of September?