Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Discussion dates: March 28 & 31, 2017 At the onset of Buchanan’s debut, a son shows up at the doorstep of his mother, Yuki, in Berlin after a 30-year separation. Jay’s there to settle Yuki’s inheritance—a house in...
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti Discussion dates: April 25 & 28, 2017 A mesmerizing father-daughter epic that explores what it means to be a hero. Samuel Hawley isn’t like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years...
The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton Discussion dates: May 23 & 26, 2017 Mary Frances “Frankie” Lombard is fiercely in love with her family’s sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers...
The Leavers by Lisa Ko Discussion dates: June 20 & 23, 2017 One morning, Deming Guo’s mother Polly goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. Left with no one to care for him, eleven-year-old Deming is eventually adopted by two white college...
October 2016 A fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father’s childhood home. It’s a quirky and...
