Name: Nooroongji Book Club Potluck Edition: Change, by Edouard Louis
Start: 2025-11-04T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-04T21:00:00-08:00
Location: After hours entrance to the Net Loft is through the EAST(Alimentaria) side door only.

Nooroongji Book Club Potluck Edition: Change, by Edouard Louis

Hey booklovers! Join us to explore hidden literary gems in this special outdoor potluck edition, celebrating summer, books, and each other.
About this Event

Welcome to another special potluck edition of the Nooroongji Book Club! This time inside the bookstore after hours.

The theme of our books vary by month, always with a mind to forwarding uncommon international works that will nourish and enrich our understanding of the world and each other. Our pick for November is Change, by Edouard Louis.

Escape meant changing his name from Eddy, which his father picked because it reminded him of tough men in American movies, to Édouard; it meant changing his face and his way of eating; it meant improbably attending lycée, then college, then the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, studying not passionately so much as obsessively; it meant coming out. It also meant learning to perform his life “the way you learn a role in the theater.” In order to attend lycée, he took up acting; at the same time, he changed his accent, scrubbing his voice of its history.
In Change, Louis details the most painful aspect of what he calls his metamorphosis: that inevitably, it meant leaving people behind: first his father, then his closest friend at lycée, Elena, through whom he learned about film and classical music, at least well enough to feel savvy and sophisticated, and whose family later accused him of taking advantage of their goodwill. (“I loved her,” Louis writes, addressing the reader directly.)
This is the past he writes to fix in Change: a time of racing ahead and leaving behind; a time when the future mattered more than the present, which was nearly inaccessible.

- Madeleine Crum,

Please join us in our Whatsapp group chat (link shared in order confirmation email) if you'd like to connect beforehand~

For this special potluck edition, Nooroongji Books will set up tables, candles, and decor inside the bookstore, along with some noshables to get the potluck started.

Please bring with you:

TUPPERWARE (we always have leftovers!), utensils, cup, or mug (we will have some disposables on hand in case you forget)
Any food or drink that's good & easy to share (if you're able to ~ no worries if not)