Difficult Women Book Club Toronto

Join us for our November Book Club Discussion! 📚

In November, we are reading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman.

During our meeting, we'll discuss the book's themes, characters, and general plot.

• Pages: 208
• Release year: 1995
• Country: Belgium

Synopsis:

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

Some ground rules:
- This is a women-only event.
- Every attendee has to read the book before the meeting.
- This is a safe place. Please be kind and respectful.
-There is a $2 per meeting fee payable by cash. This is to help cover the costs of the Meetup organizer subscription. If this is your first meeting, it’s free!

Join us for our December Book Club Discussion! 📚

We will be discussing Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

Pages: 239
Year: 2021

Synopsis:

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band – and meeting the man who would become her husband – her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Some ground rules:
- This is a women-only event.
- Every attendee has to read the book before the meeting.
- This is a safe place. Please be kind and respectful.
-There is a $2 per meeting fee payable by cash. This is to help cover the costs of the Meetup organizer subscription. If this is your first meeting, it’s free!