CSR Book Club
Interested in attending?
Please RSVP to clergyassistant@comsynrye.org. Have questions? Please email Jacey Taub. Every other month, CSR's Book Club facilitates interesting discussions over wine, cheese, and other creative snacks as we explore the layers of a novel while connecting them to relevant and relatable Jewish texts. |
Every other month, CSR's Book Club facilitates interesting discussions over wine, cheese, and other creative snacks as we explore the layers of a novel while connecting them to relevant and relatable Jewish texts.
__________________________________________________________ March 16th @ 7:30 PM - via Zoom March Pick: The Charmed Wife By Olga Grushin A sophisticated literary fairy tale for the twenty-first century, in which Cinderella, thirteen years after her marriage, is on the brink of leaving her supposedly perfect life behind. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems, and the twists and turns of its magical, dark, swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling. Everyone is welcome!
Past books include: "The Boy in the Field" by Margot Livesey "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann "Becoming Eve" by Abby Stein "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins "Where the Forest Meets the Stars" by Glendy Vanderah "Read at the Bone: A Novel" by Jacqueline Woodson "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris "Where The Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens "The Subway Girls" by Susie Orman Schnall "Between You and Me" by Susan Wiggs "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones "Eternal Life: A Novel" by Dara Horn "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward "Waking Lions" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen |