MPCA Book Club
Our October 27 book will be Love, Sex, and Frankenstein
by Caroline Lea. Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed
a monster. Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy
Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the
loss of their baby, and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, Mary seeks a refuge.
But Lord Byron’s villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like
a trap.
When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary
is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself. And so,
an idea begins to form in her mind. It spills out of her in thick, black ink. A
thing given life by her imagination. Day and night, it possesses her. Her heart,
her desires. But is she in control, or is it? In this hauntingly evocative feminist
retelling, Caroline Lea delves into the female rage, creative madness and steamy
scandal that bore the world’s most famous work of gothic fiction.
The November 24 book will be I Could Live Here Forever by
Hanna Halperin. If you’d like more information about the book club or if there’s
a book you’d like to discuss, please contact Barbara at [email protected]. The
Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday evening of each month from 7:00 to 9:00
pm (except December) in the Lower Hall. Come and join in a lively discussion about
a great book.
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