Hot Off the Press Spring 2016
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is lively monthly book discussion class led by Lynn Rosen, participants read and discuss new literary fiction. Class conversations include a thorough and thoughtful analysis of the book as well as background information provided by Lynn about the author and the book’s path to publication. We talk serious book talk, but have a lot of laughs too!
Class will take place monthly on Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 8:30pm
Dates: April 5, May 3, May 31 ,June 28
Location: The Open Book Bookstore at 7900 High School Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027
Cost: $105
To sign up click HERE.
Class members also receive discounts if they purchase their class books from the Open Book Bookstore.
Here are the book selections:
April 5
Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin
Deals with issues of women’s identity and women’s choices with a unique literary conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death.
May 3
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
Follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980’s.
May 31
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
In one moment, two lives will be changed forever… and forever… and forever. A tale of possibilities and consequences rings across the shifting decades, from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, and on to the present, showing how even small choices can define the course of our lives.
June 28
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
A debut about a year in the life of a young woman is set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. This is a story about discovery, enchantment, and the power of what remains after disillusionment.
To sign up click HERE.
NOTE: All tickets are non-refundable.
