Location: Ouchy, on the grass near the pedal boat rental and ice cream/crepe stand. Bring a blanket!
Time: 7:30 PM

This month's pick is THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz.

"Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love."

We meet on the first Thursday of each month to discuss a different book selected at previous meetings. Newcomers are always welcome! Our rules are simple:

1. Please RSVP if you plan on coming.
2. Book club is only interesting if we get to read books we wouldn't normally choose ourselves, and for that we need people to participate. When you come, please bring 3 suggestions for what we can read next! Any genre, 500 pages or less.
3. If your book is picked, please try to be at the meeting to present points of discussion -- these can be as simple as "do you like the book?" and "why or why not?"

Our previous year in books:
GREAT APES, Will Self
THE SILENT WORLD OF NICHOLAS QUINN, Colin Dexter
GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach
DUNE, Frank Herbert
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde
THE BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Life Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss
THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD-MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT A WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED, Jonas Jonasson, Rod Bradbury (Translator)
THE TESTAMENT OF MARY, Colm Toibin
ANCILLARY JUSTICE, Ann Leckie
THE COAST OF CHICAGO: STORIES, Stuart Dybek
HEART OF A DOG, Mikhail Bulgakov
SUITE FRANCAISE, Irène Némirovsky

Our September book will be: watch this space!

For the complete list of books we've read, check out our group info.