Yale GALA Book Club Reading Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

Join Yale GALA, Inc. for a virtual book club on Thursday, 12/17 8-9:30 PM EST (5-6:30 Pacific)

Enjoy a lively and engaging discussion with old and new friends, about the book Call Me by Your Name (2007), the debut novel of Andre Aciman. Yalies and friends are warmly invited; everyone is welcome.

Call Me by Your Name is a powerful and erotic story about a summer romance between 2 young men in Italy.

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

NY Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/books/review/DErasmo.t.html

Wikipedia entry (plot spoilers alert): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_by_Your_Name_(novel)

Website about Aciman's 2 books (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me) -- and the movie version, too: https://findmenovel.com/

Atlantic article about Call Me By Your Name (and the sequel Find Me): https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/11/andre-aciman-talks-find-me-and-call-me-your-name/601060/

Time magazine article about the 2 books (Call Me By Your name and Find Me):https://time.com/5710568/find-me-call-me-by-your-name-sequel/

Reader's Guide from publisher and discussion topics (we don't have to use these): https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/rgg-guides/9780312426781RGG.pdf

RSVP: RSVP for the Zoom link and password. (Optional sending of suggestions for future readings). You will also receive optional book study and discussion materials.

Cost: FREE.

More event info: http://www.yalegala.org/article.html?aid=658

http://www.yalegala.org/2020DecemberBookClub