Join Lynn Rosen for lively conversation about some award-winning recent fiction, all while enjoying a delicious Mexican brunch in the private dining room of El Poquito in Chestnut Hill!
SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward
This novel was just awarded the 2017 National Book Award for fiction. Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
DATE: Sunday, January 28, 2018
TIME: 11:30am to 1pm
COST: $55
To include a copy of the book, add an extra $24 (book retails for $26 + tax; discount for attendees)
Register HERE.
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders
This innovative work of fiction garnered the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2017. In the season where we mark Lincoln’s birthday, we’ll gather to discuss Saunders’ long-awaited first novel, his most original and moving work yet. George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying.
DATE: Saturday, Februrary 24, 2018
TIME: 11:30am to 1pm
COST: $55
To include a copy of the book, add an extra $25 (book retails for $28 + tax; discount for attendees)
Sign up for both and receive a discount. Total for two events: $100 (not including books)
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JUST ADDED! Another Brunch with a Book to discuss the much-acclaimed new novel EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid.
EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid
The internationally best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist presents the story of two young lovers whose furtive affair is shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives. Be prepared for some surprising magic realist literary elements!
DATE: Sunday, April 8, 2018
TIME: 11:30am to 1pm
COST: $55
To include a copy of the book, add an extra $24 (book retails for $26 + tax; discount for attendees)
Register HERE.