Book Club

Discussion Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017.
An astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017.
A brilliant novel about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017.
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017.
At once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017.
An outrageously funny tale about a wealthy Chinese-American family that "loses it all, then takes a healing, uproarious road trip across the United States."

Discussion Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2016.
A story about love, the artifice of evil, and the terrible necessity of accountability in our shattered, damaged world. A narrative which dares to travel deep into the darkness has produced a book of enormous emotional intelligence and courage.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016.
Published on the 80th anniversary of James's death, this is a graphic novel to be read on a winter's night, a book to curl up with--but not a book for the fainthearted. The four stories are: Canon Alberic's Scrap-book; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; and The Ash Tree.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2016.
An astonishing work of imagination. Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future--or the past?

Discussion Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. Hugo Award for Best Novel; Nebula Award for Best Novel; John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel; Wilson Fiction Core Collection; Locus Award for Best First Novel; RUSA Reading List, 2010.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2016.
The first English-language novel ever written by a woman from the Himalayan nation of Bhutan, this novel tells the story of Tsomo, a fifteen-year-old girl caught up in the everyday realities of household life and work. But when her mother dies, Tsomo suddenly feels called to travel and sets off toward a faraway village to light ritual butter lamps in her mother's memory.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016.
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia's revolution. Publishers Weekly Top 100 Books, 2010; Boston Book Review Best Fiction, 2010; Listed in Fiction Core Collection.