Happy Thanksgiving, all!
We met yesterday with the Book Club to talk about Thanksgiving reading, what we’d learned as we’ve continued through Julian Brave NoiseCat’s We Survived the Night, and what we might want to ask Julian when we meet again with the again with author and filmmaker on Wednesday, December 3, also at 12:30 p.m., Eastern, for an “ask the author anything” session.
But we’re also already looking ahead to our next book: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the long-awaited new novel from Kiran Desai. Twenty years in the making, it’s an epic love story, a multigenerational family saga, and a tale of the collision of tradition and modernity across India and America. Pick up a copy or request one from your library in advance of our first meeting with her on Wednesday, December 10, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern.
We spent a lot of the meeting talking about what else was on our to-be-read stacks, and Book Club members had some great recommendations: novels, memoirs, and nonfiction, old and new. We’ll be adding some of these to our lists for sure:
Jelani Cobb, Three or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025
Dag O. Hessen, Wolverine Tracks
Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Colum McCann, Twist
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Happy Land
Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me
Sally Rooney, Intermezzo
Ali Smith, How to Be Both
Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
What are you planning to read next (or recommend to your fellow Book Club members)? Let us all know in the comments below.
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