Book Group 2017
September 20th 2017-An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.NONFICTION
October 18th 2017-Kitchen Confidential by Anothy Bourdain
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material. NONFICTION
November 15th 2017-Mischling by Affinity Konar
Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. Pearl and Stasha take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. When the camp is liberated, she and her companion, travel through Poland's devastation. They encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele be brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo.
December 2017: No Book Group. Enjoy the holidays!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.NONFICTION
October 18th 2017-Kitchen Confidential by Anothy Bourdain
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material. NONFICTION
November 15th 2017-Mischling by Affinity Konar
Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. Pearl and Stasha take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. When the camp is liberated, she and her companion, travel through Poland's devastation. They encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele be brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo.
December 2017: No Book Group. Enjoy the holidays!
