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Book Club
We chose books and meeting dates for the next three month. This will allow people to plan their schedules and to get the books from the library if they want to. Here are the titles, the schedule and something about the books.
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Monday, April 6 @ 7 PM
Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city's finest moment, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it.
Lush Life by Richard Price
Monday, May 11 @ 7 PM
There's a crime at the heart of the story, in a few crowded blocks of Manhattan's Lower East Side, but you don't read Price for plot. Instead, you listen as he peels apart layers of class and history through the way his characters talk to each other: hipster bartenders who tell people they're really writers, homeboys from housing projects named after the Jewish immigrants who have long left the neighborhood, and cops, cops, cops, circling the streets looking for a collar, disappearing into their cases as their own lives go to ruin.
Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Monday, June 8 @ 7 PM (two books that day)
In a single day in 2004, Danticat learns that she's pregnant and that her father, André, is dying—a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family's story, rife with premature departures and painful silences.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Monday, June 8 @ 7 PM (two books that day)
The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the story of a multi-generational family curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake.
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