Join the club. Adult Book Club meetings are open to the public and FREE. As a member you will have a turn to select our book-of-the-month selection. We’ll read any genre but we will not revisit a title that has previously been selected. Our club has approximately 20 members so you could wait as long as 18 months to make your choice. All we require is that potential members enjoy the shared-reading experience.
Brownstone Books extends a 10% -20% discount on our book-of-the-month to both members as well as non-members.
Summer Selection:
Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free holiday--who should have stayed behind their resort's walls. The tide of that event carries Little Bee back to their world, which she claims she couldn't explain to the girls from her village because they'd have no context for its abundance and calm. But she shows us the infinite rifts in a globalized world, where any distance can be crossed in a day--with the right papers--and "no one likes each other, but everyone likes U2." Where you have to give up the safety you'd assumed as your birthright if you decide to save the girl gazing at you through razor wire, left to the wolves of a failing state.
