AUGUST BOOK
Our book for August is the short story collection Little Black Book of Stories by the English Booker Prize winning author A.S. Byatt (link). Please note: due to scheduling conflicts we have moved the date to the second Thursday of the month, August 15th. We should be back to our second Tuesday schedule in September. Join the literary festivities at our usual Zawa location (Zawa) on Commercial Drive, beginning at 7pm. We'll be on the patio if the glorious summer weather continues. Everyone welcome as always.
Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood:two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
