For our next book club, we will be discussing Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. I wasn't at the previous meeting to help with the selection of this book, but hopefully it works for people. It's longer than what we typically select too, but we do have over a month to read it, so we'll see how it goes!
As we discussed recently, Meetup is charging the fee for running the group again. If you haven't contributed in a while, or feel like you could or want to contribute more, I appreciate any help and whatever you are comfortable with doing! Thank you so much for your help and for continuing to show and up and support the group. I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. You're welcome to bring cash in person or send to my Venmo whenever! It's Tobias-Roth-2
The description for the book reads:
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper.
It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on—a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city's secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth.
The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments.
