TITLE & SYNOPSIS- In the Dark Room by Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize Finalist; One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year.  When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father―long estranged and living in Hungary―had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. How was this new parent who identified as “a complete woman now” connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known, the photographer who’d built his career on the alteration of images? 480 pp.; 2017

HOST-Judy Rosenstreich

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DATE-July 2nd [tentative]

TITLE & SYNOPSIS- The Mathematician’s Shiva-A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer.  Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction.  When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics, and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. As a ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela’s shiva, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves–even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes or desperately scrutinizing the mutterings of her African Grey parrot–Sasha must come to terms with his mother’s outsized influence on his life. 366 pp; 2014

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