June Meeting - Ghost Town by Kevin Chen

Our beloved Stimulatte will once again be open on Sundays. However, they now close at 4, so in order to allow us enough time to talk without outstaying our welcome, I have moved the start time to 1PM.

If this is your first meeting, welcome! We highly recommend borrowing this title from your local library or purchasing it from a local indie bookstore.

Find a description of the book below:
Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with seven daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.

The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family’s village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen’s boyfriend.

Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.

NOTE: The meeting size is capped at 10 to ensure we can have a healthy discussion where all participants are heard. If you cannot attend, please un-RSVP as early as possible!