Name: [Culture] Book Club: Big Kiss, Bye-bye by Claire-Louise Bennett
Start: 2026-04-16T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-16T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Chaussée de Vleurgat 89, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium

[Culture] Book Club: Big Kiss, Bye-bye by Claire-Louise Bennett

Full Circle Book Club hosted by Eleonora Balsano
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett
Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.
*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.
‘Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent.’
― Karl Ove Knausgaard
Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she’s loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage –a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss—make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? How do we let them go? In this tour de force of fiction, the inventive Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.