About us
Do you love reading literary fiction as much as we do? Do you find yourself finishing a book and wanting to share the experience? Do you miss the experience of reading a book and discussing the deeper meaning and implications with a group?
We meet once a month, either on zoom or in one of our homes, to discuss our latest selection.
Note: There are scammers impersonating the organizers of this book club, offering indie writers the chance to have their book discussed in our group with the payment of a fee. It is a scam. We do not contact writers. The books we read in this group have won or been short listed for a Pulitzer, National Book Award, or Mann Booker prize, been listed as a top read of the year by NYT, and have dozens of copies available at LA-area libraries. If you receive an email from someone claiming to be an organizer of this group and asking for a fee, please report it to Google as a phishing attempt.
Upcoming events
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LA Lit Fans Meetup for June
·OnlineOnlineFor June, we'll be reading Endling by Maria Reva. (Note: this is a replacement for the previous choice of Clockers due to length.)
Longlisted for the Booker Prize. A best book of the year for Washington Post, New Yorker, NPR, Publisher's Weekly, Guardian, and others.
From Amazon:
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the mail-order bride industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness.
The zoom link will be sent out the day before the event. We hope that you can join us. If so, please RSVP. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend, please update your RSVP. No shows will be removed from the group.
13 attendees
LA LitFans Meetup for July: A Far-Flung Life
·OnlineOnlineFor July, we'll be discussing A Far-Flung Life by M. L. Stedman.
https://amzn.to/4tlQBEATrigger warning: this novel includes themes of incest and sexual assault within its storyline
We hope you are able to join us for a lively discussion. To attend, please RSVP. If you do RSVP then find you're not able to make it, we ask that you update to not attending. No shows will be removed from the group.
From Amazon:
From the author of The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia—about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love.Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered. And then, tragedy revisits when a twist of consequences claims the life of one sibling, and leads another to give up everything for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide. The secrets at the heart of this gutting and beautiful story force him to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.
6 attendees
Past events
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