BST Book Club
Next Meeting
Sunday, August 22 - 12:00 Noon
The Griffin, Downtown Fredericksburg
Good food and conversation was the theme of June's book club meeting. We enjoyed talking about Miriam's Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich -- a book that was filled with rich stories and delicious recipes. We're taking July off but are excited about our two upcoming reads. In August, we will read The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lagnado. Copies are available at The Griffin in downtown Fredericksburg. Below is a review from NYT.com:
"In “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit” Ms. Lagnado — an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal — gives us a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its journey from wartime Cairo to the New World. Like André Aciman in his now classic memoir, “Out of Egypt” (1994), she conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace, and like Mr. Aciman she calculates the emotional costs of exile with an unsentimental but forgiving eye. This is not simply the story of a well-to-do family’s loss of its home, its privileges and its identity. It is a story about how exile indelibly shapes people’s views of the world, a story about the mathematics of familial love and the wages of memory and time."
In September, we are excited to read a novel by Amos Oz. Our pick is " A Tale of Love and Darkness." September's date is TBD. Below is an excerpt from the Association of Jewish Libraries:
"The autobiographical story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation."
Our mission is to bring together people who enjoy reading and talking about progressive Jewish literature. We hope you will join us! BST Book Club
