The Literary Group met October 27th to discuss Left Handed Dreams by Francesca Duranti, a rather clunky story retold by a supposedly brilliant self-absorbed Italian-born woman who makes good as an American university professor, but who maintains the lightweight theory that by recording her dreams and confirming that she was born left-handed she can prove how all of our identities are so close to being interchangeable, and once she shares this proof with the world all prejudices will go away. While it is unlikely that Duranti meant the narrator or those around her to be air-heads or air-head codependents, the brightest character in the book is a stray puppy who eats, sleeps, and poops.The group voted the book a miserable 1.2 bookmarks with the humble footnote that if this is Duranti's latest book she should call it quits for writing.