On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 we will be discussing  Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com.

You will be sent the Google Meet link or the physical address upon RSVP.

We have added two additional books at the end of the list (December and January). Please investigate availability as the last one was just published in 2023.

The list of the books for the rest of 2023 and January 2024 is included below. The list has recently changed, so check it twice, please.

October 10, 2023    Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson – 2022, 192 pp.   ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith” (Oprah Daily). “You’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting” (Vogue).

November 14    Kindred by Octavia Butler – 2009, 264 pp. “In what is considered a literary masterpiece and Butler’s most popular novel, Kindred follows a young Black woman named Dana. Though she lives in 1976 L.A., she’s suddenly transported to a Civil War-era plantation in Maryland. Soon, the more frequently Dana travels back in time, the longer she stays, as she faces a danger that threatens her life in the future.”

December 12, 2023  Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout – 2022, 304 pp.  – from Amazon, “NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.

“Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR”

January 9, 2024    The Guest by Emma Cline – 2023, 294 pp.  From NYT review, “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force. And not just for her hosts, but for the novel itself.”