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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 […]
Book Club May 2020 – The Giver of Stars, Jojo Mayes Women became horseback librarians in 1930’s Kentucky and faced challenges from the landscape, the weather, and the men around them. Alice thought marrying attractive American Bennett Van Cleve would be her ticket out of her stifling life in England. But when she and Bennett […]
Book Club Schedule 2020-2021 Our Sisterhood Book Club is open to all interested Sisterhood members. During the COVID-19 restrictions we will meet virtually via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Date Book Author Leader September 22 The Newcomers Helen Thorpe Ellen Sherman October 27 The Giver of Stars Jojo Mayes […]
France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler’s Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Péret, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the Third Reich, fear and uncertainty […]
