Book Discussion 1: (in person) Erasure by Percival Everett

Our December book read is: Erasure by Percival Everett

This is the IN PERSON version of the event at the restaurant mentioned on this page. If you can't attend the person, look for the online event with the same book title.

Announcement:

• Book Recommendations requested.
• The last day to recommend books for the poll will be the night of December 19, 2024; Following our virtual book discussion.
• The POLL WILL BE RELEASED NO LATER THAN January 10, 2024, and the POLL WILL CLOSE ON THE WEEKEND OF March 1st.

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Notes for leader: Read & Erase/ then complete :-)

The movie version was released last year and is available to stream. If you've seen it, it will be fun to compare and contrast.

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies―his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.

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