The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 3 p.m., in the shul’s community room to discuss Joshua Cohen’s novel, The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family.

          In this story, Ruben Blum is co-opted onto a college’s hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar. Benzion Netanyahu shows up. The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive comedy that blends identity with politics, mixing fiction with nonfiction, and a campus novel with a lecture — all with amusing results.

For more information about the Book Circle and its selection, email ctigreenport.org and leave a message for Susan Rosenstreich.