The Book Circle will meet on Friday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m., at the shul, to explore a prize-winning family drama by Yaniv Iczkovits titled The Slaughterman’s Daughter, winner of the 2021 Wingate Prize and a finalist for a 2021 National Jewish Book Club Award.

Two  sisters take separate paths from their shtetl lives in Czarist Russia. One once considered following in her father’s footsteps as a ritual slaughterer. She may have abandoned the profession, but not the slaughter knife that she keeps tied to her leg as she sets off to find her sister’s husband, who has disappeared. The story has been described as a comedy of errors that somehow pits the Czar’s army against the Russian secret police. How it all sorts out makes for an imaginative work of fiction.

For more information about the Book Circle, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.