The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, June 19, at noon, in the shul’s community room to explore Michael Davis Lukas’s award-winner, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel. In this offering, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. Winner of the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Award, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, named one of the 10 best books of the year by the BBC, finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and longlisted for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association fiction prize.

The Book Circle studies literature on Jewish themes by Jewish writers. For more information about the group, and how to join, call the shul and leave a message for Susan Rosenstreich.