OPALGA Book Club
OPALGA hosts a monthly book club. Meetings to discuss the books chosen by the club are usually held on the third Sunday of every month from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please consult the Calendar for the exact date every month. Meetings are held at The OPALGA Center, 947 Garfield, Oak Park. Books read by the club are available at The Book Table, 1045 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois, 60301, as well as at Amazon.com. In addition, copies will be made available at the Oak Park Public Library. OPALGA receives a charitable donation from The Book Table on each book purchased from them. Please let them know you are purchasing your book as part of the OPALGA Book Club.
Upcoming Book Club Selections
Please check out the upcoming books that have been selected by the Book Club.
December 17, 2006
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Set in South America, terrorists attack and take hostages. Captors and prisoners settle into a strange domesticity, and romantic liaisons soon develop.
January 21, 2007
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Centers on four sisters and their relationships with each other and with their father in the coal-mining communities of Nova Scotia.
February 2007
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Burroughs is sent to live with Dr. Finch (his mother’s therapist) when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian.
March 2007
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Lorde writes in detail of her cultural heritage from the Caribbean island of Grenada and recalls what it was like to be a young, black lesbian in the 1950s.
April 2007
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Esperanza Cordero, a girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment.
