The Kavana Book Club is entering its 10th year of discussing provocative Jewish fiction and non-fiction. This year we continue our exploration of some of the hottest and coolest contemporary Jewish writers. Join us every other month on Sunday mornings for our discussion.
Our next book is a novel called, “Barren Island” by Carol Zoref. Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a factory island in New York's Jamaica Bay, where the city's dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th century until the 1930's.
All are invited to join us for this discussion. Participants take turns hosting these gatherings, so please be sure to RSVP in order to receive location details.
List of past reads:
Three Floors Up – Eshkol Nevo
Ways to Disappear – Idra Novey
Eternal Life – Dara Horn
The Weight of Ink – Rachel Kadish
Paris in the Present Tense – Mark Helprin
Dinner at the Center of the Earth – Nathan Englander
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan – Ruth Gilligan
If all the Seas were Ink – Ilana Kurshan
4321 – Paul Auster
A Horse Walks into a Bar – David Grossman
Moonglow – Michael Chabon
Judas – Amos Oz
The Marriage of Opposites – Alice Hoffman
The Boatmaker – John Benditt
The Seven Good Years – Etgar Keret
The Last Flight of Poxl West – Daniel Torday
The Mystics of Mile End – Sigal Samuel
The Lion Seeker – Kenneth Bonert
A Highly Unlikely Scenario – Rachel Cantor
An Officer and a Spy – Robert Harris
The UnAmericans – Molly Antopol
The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant
Suddenly, Love – Aharon Appelfeld
The Mathematician’s Shiva – Stuart Rojstaczer
Jacob’s Folly – Rebecca Miller
Visible City – Tova Mirvis
The Family – David Laskin
Between Friends – Amos Oz
Guide for the Perplexed – Dara Horn
The Innocents – Francesca Segal
The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker