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Please join us Thursday, April 13, at 6:45 p.m. for a discussion via Zoom of Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. During the Civil War, an enslaved groom and … Continue reading Book Group: Horse
Please join us Thursday, March 2, at 6:45 p.m. for a discussion via Zoom of Abdulrazak Gumah’s Afterlives: A Novel. As a young boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. Returning home after years away, he finds his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned … Continue reading Book Group: Afterlives: A Novel
The St. John’s Book Group will meet virtually on Thursday, February 2, at 6:45 p.m. to discuss Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of a woman who didn’t know that she was born into a family of … Continue reading Book Group: Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
The St. John’s Book Group will meet virtually on Thursday, January 12, at 6:45 p.m. to discuss The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power … Continue reading Book Group: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The St. John’s Book Group will meet virtually on Thursday, December 1, at 6:45 p.m. to discuss Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. This European novel tells the journey of a retired German university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, as he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on … Continue reading Book Group: Go, Went, Gone
The St. John’s Book Group will meet virtually on Thursday, November 3, at 6:45 p.m. to discuss Bewilderment by Richard Powers. The novel contains soaring descriptions of the natural world, a tantalizing vision of life beyond, and the account of a father and son’s ferocious love. Following on the 2018 novel Overstory, Bewilderment poses the … Continue reading Book Group: Bewilderment
Are you interested in questions around faith and science? A group will gather virtually on Tuesday, October 11, at 7 p.m. to explore the theology of Teilhard du Chardin. We will use the text by John F. Haught The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin as the starting point for our discussions. For more information … Continue reading Faith and Science at St. John’s
The St. John’s Book Group will meet virtually on Thursday, October 6, at 6:45 p.m. to discuss Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. This fictional novel is dedicated to “the librarians then, now and in the years to come.” Three intertwined stories feature children on the cusp of adulthood in three different times and places: … Continue reading Book Group: Cloud Cuckoo Land
