About this Event
Join us as we dive in to literary sci-fi for our November Branch Out Book Club! We will be meeting on Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30pm here at Titcomb's Bookshop to discuss by Marie-Helene Bertino, a wise and tender novel about a woman who doesn’t feel at home on Earth.
Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page. Beautyland can be purchased at Titcomb's Bookshop, through our website, or by calling the store at 508-888-2331.
ABOUT THE BRANCH OUT BOOK CLUB
Titcomb's Bookshop's Branch Out Book Club, hosted by Katie (Marketing & Communications Specialist) and Caleb (Antiquarian/Used Books Specialist), invites people to read books that may be outside of their typical reading comfort zone. From offbeat literary fiction to horror or sci-fi, we aim to expand our minds by expanding our reading choices. Each month, we will mix up the genre or theme and offer a welcoming environment for our community to read together and share thoughts and reflections. The Branch Out Book Club will meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at Titcomb's Bookshop (unless otherwise noted). Join us!
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn’t feel at home on Earth.
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.
For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone?
Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home, and it introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
*Please note that authors are not in attendance for book club meetings*
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Beautyland, Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City’s Center for Fiction, and her work has twice been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Mississippi Review 30. She is the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Titcomb's Bookshop, 432, Sandwich, United States
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