Our book choice for September 2019 is Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations—those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square.
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Our book group choice for July 2019 is The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever.
Our book group choice for June 2019 is Ordinary People by Diana Evans. South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution.
Our book group choice for May 2019 is Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan. In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town.
Our book group choice for April 2019 is Night Walks by Charles Dickens. Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets.
Our book group choice for March 2019 is Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene. It’s the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral.
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Our book group choice for February 2019 is The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy. The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s.
Our book group choice for January 2019 is House of Names by Colm Tóibín. On the day of his daughter’s wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.
Our book group choice for December 2018 is Normal People by Sally Rooney. Connell and Marianne both grow up in the same town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds.
Our book group choice for November 2018 is The Bell by Iris Murdoch. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns.
