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❃ NEXT MEETING: JANUARY 9TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING STILL BORN BY GUADALUPE NETTEL. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JANUARY 9TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING STILL BORN BY GUADALUPE NETTEL. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JANUARY 9TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING STILL BORN BY GUADALUPE NETTEL. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
❃ NEXT MEETING: JANUARY 9TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING STILL BORN BY GUADALUPE NETTEL. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Jan. 9th, 7pm
Still Born
Guadalupe Nettel (Author)
Rosalind Harvey (Translator)
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them.
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Feb. 13th, 7pm
Standing Heavy
GauZ' (Author)
Frank Wynne (Translator)
All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented workers amidst political infighting and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policy. Standing Heavy is a searing deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption and an unforgettable account of everything that passes under the security guards' all-seeing eyes.
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Mar. 13th, 7pm
Last Night In Nuuk
Niviaq Korneliussen (Author)
Anna Halager (Translator)
Fia has recently sworn off sausage (men) only to discover that the woman she wants is unavailable. Arnaq struggles to cope with her past as her hard-partying life spirals out of control and she betrays those she loves most. Inuk, Fia's brother, is forced to escape Greenland after political scandal implicates him, and confronts the true meaning of home. Meanwhile, Ivik and Sara must confront an important transition in their relationship.
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Apr. 10th, 7pm
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami (Author)
Sam Bett (Translator)
David Boyd (Translator)
In Heaven, a shy high-school student is subjected to bullying from his classmates and the only person capable of understanding his ordeal is a young classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormentors. Each finds in the other a unique sensibility capable of offering not only solace but also a fresh perspective on their predicaments.
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May 8th, 7pm
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Irene Solà (Author)
Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain." He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he'd harvested before going on their merry ways.
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