Book Club

The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, April 30, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about The Safekeep, by Yael Van Der Wouden, in whose debut novel it is learned that a house and its people are not what they seem. It is a dark tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961.

“Mysterious, sophisticated, sensual and infused with intrigue, The Safekeep is about facing up to the truth of history and to one’s own desires,” says The Guardian. The book was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, and won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction.

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

The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, March. 20, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, to talk about Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson, a Nazi resistance story by an unlikely pair of heroines.

Paper Bullets tells the story of two French women who drew on their skills as artists to write and distribute “paper bullets” —  wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive dialogues to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. They slipped notes into soldier’s pockets and tucked them inside newsstand magazines.

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