Book Club Selects Titles for 2008, Including Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”
On December 16, book club members will discuss Side by Side by Isabel Miller, author of Patience and Sarah. In this novel, two girls fall in love and are separated by their families only to be reunited in New York City during the time of Stonewall.
Book club members have also decided upon their first four selections for 2008:
• January 20—Blood Sisters by Mary Jacobsen, a novel of the generosity of spirit and friendship that goes beyond sexuality.
• February 17—In keeping with the recently announced theme for the 12th Annual OPAL Gala ("Twelfth Night"), the book club has decided to read Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, in which Duchess Olivia falls in love with Viola, who has disguised herself as a boy to find her missing twin brother. Festive songs and holiday spirit figure into the mood of this comic Shakespearean play of mistaken identity.
• March 16—Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran, in which the three Aminpour sisters escape the Iranian Revolution and make their way to an Irish village where they open a small café.
• April 20—Three Junes by Julia Glass, which tells the tale of several central characters during three separate Junes spanning 10 years. Paul, a newly widowed father of three grown sons on a group tour of the Greek islands; Fenno, his eldest son, a gay man in New York City; and Fern, an artist and book designer whom Paul met on his trip to Greece several years earlier, now a young widow, pregnant, and also living in New York City.
The book club meets every third Sunday from 2:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m. at The OPALGA Center, 947 Garfield, Oak Park, unless otherwise specified. All books are available through www.amazon.com. In addition, copies will be available at the Oak Park Public Library (834 Lake St., Oak Park) as well as at The Book Table (1045 Lake St.), when possible. Remember, OPALGA receives a charitable donation from The Book Table for each book purchased there (regardless of whether it is a book club selection). Please let them know that you are purchasing your book as a member of OPALGA.
