by Patti Hinson | Sep 18, 2024 | Book Group, Upcoming
On October 13 at 2:30 we will discuss The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray at St. Matthew’s. Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont...
by Patti Hinson | Aug 20, 2024 | Book Group, Upcoming
On September 15 at 2:30, we will discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt at St. Matthew’s. What does a misanthropic octopus have in common with Tova, a widow working as the night-shift janitor at the Sowell Bay Aquarium? Not much, until a...
by Patti Hinson | Jul 25, 2024 | Book Group, Upcoming
On August 18 at 2:30, we will discuss The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks at St. Matthew’s. This decades-spanning portrait addresses three experiences of the “New South Africa.” Through the lives of...
by Patti Hinson | Jun 27, 2024 | Book Group, Upcoming
On July 21 at 2:30 p.m. we will discuss Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe at St. Matthew’s. This classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent is told...
by Patti Hinson | May 1, 2024 | Book Group, Upcoming
On June 23 at 2:30 p.m. we will discuss The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese at St. Matthew’s. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine is set in Kerala, South India, and follows three...
by Patti Hinson | Mar 22, 2024 | Book Group, Upcoming
On April 28 at 2:30 p.m. we will discuss Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden at St. Matthew’s. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a...
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