❃ NEXT MEETING: SEPT 11TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING MADONNA IN A FUR COAT BY SABAHATTIN ALI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

❃ NEXT MEETING: SEPT 11TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING MADONNA IN A FUR COAT BY SABAHATTIN ALI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

❃ NEXT MEETING: SEPT 11TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING MADONNA IN A FUR COAT BY SABAHATTIN ALI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

❃ NEXT MEETING: SEPT 11TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING MADONNA IN A FUR COAT BY SABAHATTIN ALI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

❃ NEXT MEETING: SEPT 11TH, 7PM, DISCUSSING MADONNA IN A FUR COAT BY SABAHATTIN ALI. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

Cover of Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
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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Cover of The Membranes by Ta-Wei Chi
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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Cover of The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
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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