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Reading Between the Wines – August
Reading Between the Wines – August
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)
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Katherine Knapp’s Home
5201 Florence AvenueDowners Grove, Illinois, United States 60515
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RSVPs will open July 29th.
We will be reading “The Immortalist” by Chloe Benjamin.
Description: It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.
The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, August 7 by 5pm and indicate if you can bring wine, app, or dessert to share.
If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Knapp, Book Club Chair – kknapp100@gmail.com or 773.580.4949. We also have a Facebook group ‘DGAN Reading Between The Wines(Book Club)’, please reach out if you are interested in joining the Facebook conversation.
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Katherine Knapp’s Home
5201 Florence AvenueDowners Grove, Illinois, United States 60515
Get directions »