Books on Tap: "Biography of X"
Join us for a cocktail and book discussion
Newcomers are always welcome!
We meet in person on the third Monday of each month except on those Mondays that we are closed because of a holiday, in which case we meet on the fourth Monday of the month.
Our July selection is : "Biography of X" by Catherine Lacey
We are reading:
- Jan. 15: "Crying in H Mart: a memoir" by Michelle Zauner
- Feb. 19: "The Passenger" by Cormac McCarthy
- Mar. 18: "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler
- Apr. 15: "Shuggie Bain" by Douglas Stuart
- May 20: "In a dark, dark wood" by Ruth Ware
- Jun. 17: "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
- Jul. 15: "Biography of X" by Catherine Lacey
Registration is required. Attendance is limited to 15 people.
We will be meeting at Samuel Beckett's Irish Pub, 2800 South Randolph Street, Arlington VA 22206
For more information, please call 703-228-6545.
- Date:
- Monday, July 15, 2024
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Samuel Beckett's Irish Pub, 2800 South Randolph Street, Arlington VA 22206
- Library:
- *Off-Site
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Club
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
About the Book:
"When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, aand which finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification."