The Book Circle will meet again on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 3 p.m., on Zoom, to discuss Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.

In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances take hold, while old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist, his Russian-born psychiatrist wife, their precocious child obsessed with K-pop, a struggling Indian American writer, a wildly successful Korean American app developer, a global dandy with three passports, a Southern essayist, and a movie star. Described as elegiac and funny, Our Country Friends is an offering by the author of the popular Super Sad True Love Story.

The book circle meets monthly to explore works about Jews and by Jewish writers. For information, email the shul at ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.