Gay Men’s Book Group - October 2024 - ‘The Queens Of Sarmiento Park’

The Edinburgh Gay Men's Book Group is open to all gay, bi, trans men and queer identifying men, and is one of the LGBT Health and Wellbeing Centre's Community Groups. At our October 2024 Book Group meeting we'll be discussing ‘The Queens Of Sarmiento Park’ by Camila Sosa Villada.

We’ll be meeting via Zoom / online on Wednesday 23rd October to discuss the book. The main meeting will start at 7pm but a few of us will be on line from 6.45pm for pre meeting social chat. We alternate our meetings between in-person and Zoom / online meetings, so our next in-person meeting will be in November.

We advertise our meetings using a number of different platforms so there will be more people attending this meeting than have signed up on Meetup!

We do suggest that everyone reads all or part of the book to get the most out of meetings. For further information about joining this meeting please message on here or email [email protected]. New members to the group are always welcome. Details of our future and past book choices are available on our website, plus further information on the group: https://edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com/

At the main Book Group meeting we discuss the book for usually an hour, and then have more of a social chat afterwards.

About October's book - 'The Queens of Sarmiento Park':
“Auntie Encarna’s is the queerest boarding house in the world. For Camila, it is a refuge, and the travesti who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down. Until, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to investigate. When she finds an abandoned baby boy, she will hear no arguments: she is bringing him home to care for him. Life for Camila and the others will never be the same again.”