Our February book discussion will be on Wednesday February 3, 2021 at 3:00 pm Eastern time. We will discuss The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett.
From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Please Note: All book club meetings will take place via Zoom and will begin at 3 p.m.
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Our Book List (with most recent first)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (April 2021)
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (March 2021)
The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett (February 2021)
Circe by Madeline Miller (January 2021)
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (December 2020)
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (November 2020)
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Repentance by Alan Lam
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Daughter of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
The Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kuschner
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Americanah by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
Euphoria by Lily King
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Voice of the River by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
An Unseemly Wife by E. B. Moore
Troublesome Young Men by Lynn Olson
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman (Wellesley '94)
Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtle
Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewdki
Killing Mr. Watson by Peter Matthiesen
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Run by Ann Patchett
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara