November 2015: Witness the Night

Very excited to read a novel set in India next. We will be discussing the book "Witness the Night" by Kishwar Desai on Sunday November 22.

Here's a Book Summary:
In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed.

We will be meeting in the Richmond neighborhood on Sunday November 22 at 2pm.

Next Books to Read:
December: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Stay tune for books to read in 2016! 
Includes:

• The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb 
• Compañeras - Zapatistas Women Stories by Hilary Klein 
• A Woman in the Crossfire Diaries of the Syrian Revolution by Samar Yazbik
• Everything I never told you by Celest Ng 
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

October 2015 - What Tears Us Apart

This month of October we'll be discussing the book "What Tears Us Apart" by Deborah Cloyed.
 
Here's a Book Summary:

 
Love lives in the most dangerous places of the heart
 
The real world. That's what Leda desperately seeks when she flees her life of privilege to travel to Kenya. She finds it at a boys' orphanage in the slums of Nairobi. What she doesn't expect is to fall for Ita, the charismatic and thoughtful man who gave up his dreams to offer children a haven in the midst of turmoil.
 
Their love should be enough for one another-it embodies the soul-deep connection both have always craved. But it is threatened by Ita's troubled childhood friend, Chege, a gang leader with whom he shares a complex history. As political unrest reaches a boiling point and the slum erupts in violence, Leda is attacked and forced to put her trust in Chege, the one person who otherwise inspires anything but.
 
In the aftermath of Leda's rescue, disturbing secrets are exposed, and Leda, Ita and Chege are each left grappling with their own regret and confusion. Their worlds upturned, they must now face the reality that sometimes the most treacherous threat is not the world outside, but the demons within.
 
We will be meeting on Sunday October 18 at 2pm in the Alamo Square neighborhood.