Hi everyone!
Come join us for our book club discussion on John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies! We'll discuss what we thought of the story over some refreshments, then pick out our book for the next month.
If you're not familiar with the novel, here is the Goodreads blurb: "Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?
Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more."
If you'd like to get a start on April's book, we will be reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Feel free to bring suggestions for the May selection. While there's no hard-and-fast rules about what can be nominated, try to keep focused on stories that fit somewhere in the acronym: LGBTQIA+.
You don't need to purchase the book each month to join. I personally use the smartphone apps Libby or Hoopla to borrow an e-book copy from the Santa Barbara Public Library, while other members borrow physical versions from the Library. If you do end up purchasing a copy, do try to support your local bookstores like Chaucer's Books on State Street. Audiobook readers are welcome as well- whatever works best for you!
