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Book Club September 2021 – The Overstory, Richard Powers Powers’ (Orfeo, 2014, etc.) 12th novel is a masterpiece of operatic proportions, involving nine central characters and more than half a century of American life. In this work, Powers takes on the subject of nature, or our relationship to nature, as filtered through the lens of […]
Book Club July 2021 – Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious […]
Book Club June 2021 – Born a Crime, Trevor Noah The memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act, his birth. Trevor was born […]
Book Club May 2021 – The Watergate Girl, Jill Wine-Banks Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations. Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor. It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up […]
Book Club April 2021 – The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish. The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets – first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked […]
Book Club March 2021 – Call It Sleep, Henry Roth When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its […]
Book Club February 2021 – Inheritance, Dani Shapiro Before focusing on memoirs, Shapiro (Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, 2017, etc.) drew from her family life in her fiction. In her latest, she delves into an origin story that puts everything she previously believed and wrote about herself in fresh perspective. The author’s relationship with her mother […]
Book Club January 2021 – Apeirogon, Colum McCann Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon, named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every […]
Book Club December 2020 – A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia’s, wedding – a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the […]
Book Club November 2021 – The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujeta Massey In the current climate of #MeToo, it has become clear that there is a power imbalance between the sexes and that achieving legitimate gender equality is still an uphill battle. And reading a work such as The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey’s […]
