Classics Book Club: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Company of Books

We generally meet on the 4th Monday of each month, and read literary classics. Twice a year we cover a longer work over multiple meetings.

2200 Mt Vernon Ave

Classics Book Club

Our Classics Book Club meets every 4th Monday at 6:00pm.

Book: The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyParking spots #6 &amp; #41-44 in the parking lot are for bookstore customers.If you <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/upcoming-book-club-picks-the-company-of-books?" title="https://bookshop.org/lists/upcoming-book-club-picks-the-company-of-books?" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">order the book through our storefront on BookShop.org</a>, show us your receipt, and you'll get 10% of that purchase back in store credit to spend at TCB! (But no pressure - libraries are also time-honored partners to book clubs. We love our libraries!)ABOUT THE BOOK: The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . . Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family—their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.

Classics Book Club: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

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