Every summer, the Adler family rents their Atlantic City, NJ home to vacationers and moves into the small apartment above their bakery. Mr. and Mrs. Adler have two daughters, Fannie and Florence. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest for the duration of her pregnancy. After Mr. Adler … Read More
Book Club @ Wylliesburg
We hope you will join us to discuss The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Even separated by so many miles and just … Read More
Book Club @ CCH
Our next book is the bestseller, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. About this award-winning book: One snowy night a famous actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve in a flu pandemic. Moving back and forth in time–from the actor’s early days as a film star to twenty years in the future, when … Read More