Book Club

The Postcard
by Anne Berest

​​​​​Book Circle
Choice of the Month!

Thursday, April 25 at 3 PM
On CTI Zoom
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Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.

For more information about
The Book Circle
email ctigreenport@gmail.com ​​​​​​​
with a message ​​​​​​​for
​​​​​​​Susan Rosenstreich.​​​​​​​ 

At its next meeting, to be held on Thursday, April 4 at 3 p.m., on Zoom, the Book Circle will consider a novel by Elizabeth Graver titled Kantika, a word translated from Ladino as “song.”

            In this work, readers will meet Rebecca Cohen and her family as they traverse four countries that test their endurance to maintain the family dynamic.

The book group meets monthly to explore the writing of Jewish authors and/or Jewish themes. For more information, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.

Coming up at the Thursday, Feb. 22 meeting of the Book Circle, at 3 p.m. on Zoom, is a discussion about what happened on Chicken Hill, as related by James McBride in his bestselling National Book Award-winning novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.

            In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, PA, were digging the foundations for a new development, they found a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there are two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans live side by side and share ambitions and sorrows.

When the truth is finally revealed, we see that love and community — heaven and earth — sustain us.