About this Event
Held in person at The Library in St. Pete on the third Tuesday of every month. This book club focuses on popular, yet compelling book club novels that spark connection and conversation.
Books are available in-person or online at the Oxford Exchange Bookstore.
Intermezzo | Sally Rooney
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
The Library Book Club Titles
- January We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- February Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
- March Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
- April Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- May Real Americans by Rachel Khong
- June None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
- July All Fours by Miranda July
- August Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
- September Oye by Melissa Mogollon
- October The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
- November The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
- December Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Library - inspired by the George Peabody Library, 600 5th Street South, St. Petersburg, United States
