Join us for our next Book Club gathering! The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (336 pages/2019) Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined […]
Join us for our next Book Club gathering on September 26th. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020/430 pages). Winner of the Booker Prize 2020. The 2020 Booker-winning novel could have been called Agnes. The mother of the title character has a tragic nobility to her; you will her not to succumb to drink. Yes, she […]
Join us for our next Book Club gathering on October 31. This month’s book is…Bewilderment by Richard Powell (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (340pp/2021). Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most […]
Join us for our next Book Club gathering on December 5th. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (272pp/2021). Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder […]
