Book Club

Join us for a discussion of The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani, a richly imagined historical novel set in 17th-century Persia. The story follows a gifted young carpet weaver whose life is upended after her father’s death leaves her and her mother without a dowry. Traveling to Isfahan to work as servants in the…

Join us for a discussion of Flashlight by National Book Award–winning author Susan Choi. One summer night, ten-year-old Louisa takes a walk with her father along a breakwater. He is carrying a flashlight and cannot swim. By morning, Louisa is found alone on the beach, soaked and barely alive—her father has vanished. In the aftermath,…