❃ NEXT MEETING: JUNE 12TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING LIVING THINGS BY MUNIR HACHEMI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JUNE 12TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING LIVING THINGS BY MUNIR HACHEMI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JUNE 12TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING LIVING THINGS BY MUNIR HACHEMI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JUNE 12TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING LIVING THINGS BY MUNIR HACHEMI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JUNE 12TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING LIVING THINGS BY MUNIR HACHEMI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Jun. 12th, 7pm
Living Things
Munir Hachemi (Author)
Julia Sanches (Translator)
Munir, G, Ernesto, and Álex leave Madrid after graduation for a carefree summer of picking grapes in the south of France. But there's no grape harvest, and they end up in a series of increasingly nightmarish factory-farming gigs, where workers start disappearing. Soon the youngmen find themselves far away from the world of books and ideas, immersed in an existence that is lawless, inhumane and increasingly menacing...
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Jul. 10th, 7pm
Paradais
Fernanda Melchor (Author)
Sophie Hughes (Translator)
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.
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Aug. 14th, 7pm
Riambel
Priya Hein (Author)
Haddiyyah Tegally (Translator)
Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own - yet one which would have been all too familiar to her ancestors. Bewitched by a pair of green eyes and haunted by echoes, her life begins to mirror those of girls who have gone before her.
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Sept. 11th, 7pm
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali (Author)
Maureen Freely (Translator)
Alexander Dawe (Translator)
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amidst the city’s bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics, and infamous cabarets, a chance meeting with a beautiful half-Jewish artist transforms him forever. Caught between his desire for freedom from tradition and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found with the woman he loves.
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Oct. 9th, 7pm
The Membranes
Ta-Wei Chi (Author)
Ari Larissa Heinrich (Translator)
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality.
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Nov. 13th, 7pm
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer (Author)
Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.
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