BOOK CLUB
Dine & Discuss
Do you enjoy reading, eating and exploring? Join Us!
The book club meets monthly at local restaurants in the southern Westchester and northern Bronx region. Members take turns leading a session, including book and restaurant selection and discussion facilitation
There is no fee to participate. Book club members are responsible for their food and beverage purchases at meetings and obtaining their books. Restaurant selections will be cost-conscious with entrees ranging from $15 - $25. Advance registration required.
See below for the current book selection.
Next Meeting:
Wednesday, December 4th
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
TBD
FREE
Or, call (347) 903-3354
BOOK SELECTION
ANOTHER BROOKLYN
by Jacqueline Woodson
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 190s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything - until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant - a part of a future that belonged to them.
But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.
Like Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood-the promise and peril of growing up - and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.
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