Book Club

The Book Circle will meet again on Wednesday, March 16, at 3 p.m. on Zoom, to uncover the inventiveness of Anthony Doerr’s much-anticipated novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, a followup to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See.

                        Cloud Cuckoo Land is a book about a book as told through sets of characters in past, present and future time periods. Doerr’s cast includes an orphan girl and farmer’s boy in Constantinople in the 1400s, an environmental activist setting off a bomb in a library in 2020, and a girl on a mission to a distant planet in the not-so-distant future. An ancient Greek tale and an old shepherd on a search for utopia intertwines them.

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.

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.

The Book Circle will meet again on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 2:30 p.m., on Zoom, to discuss My Broken Language, a memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes, which tells a coming-of-age story with her sprawling Puerto Rican family against the backdrop of a Philadelphia barrio. It is a story of home, memory and belonging narrated by a girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, whose father in Jewish and her mother Puerto Rican, earlier developed the screenplay for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.

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.