Book Club

More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman, an International Booker Prize nominee, chronicles three generations of women as they travel to a barren Croatian island to reveal a secret. Here they unravel fear, love, mercy and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental desires. The selection will be explored at the next meeting of the Book Circle, to be held on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 4:15 p.m., on Zoom.

The novel was inspired by the true story of one of the author’s longtime confidants who, in the early 1950s, was imprisoned there.

The Book Circle meets monthly to discuss works by Jewish authors and/or Jewish themes. For more information about the group, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.

The Book Circle will meet Thursday, November 17 at 4 pm, at the shul, with this month’s selection:

“A Cold Red Sunrise” by Stuart Kaminsky.

If you wish to join the club, please email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, the group coordinator.

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.