Discuss books you’ve been reading or share your thoughts on the club’s recommended book of the month.
Read any good books lately? Come ready to share! Choose, explore, and discuss thought-provoking fiction and non-fiction titles. The recommended book for October is "Blackouts” by Justin Torres. Pick up a copy of the book from the Information Desk or try the eBook at the Ohio Digital Library. This discussion will be held in-person. Registration is recommended for in-person.
Synopsis: “Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay--playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized--has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, “Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns,” which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator trade stories--moments of joy and oblivion--and resurrect lost loves, lives, mothers, fathers, and minor heroes. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?” - Goodreads.
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