Book Club! -- Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

**It's not required to have read the book to join, but there will be major spoilers!**

When: Monday, November 17th, at 6-8 PM

Where: Trinity Brewing (1466 Garden of the Gods Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80907)

Book: Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

Summary: Two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned against her. Fleeing to London with their young son, she gets a teaching job in an art school, where she is thrown into the thick of the new decade. Poets and painters are denying the value of the past, fostering dreams of rebellion, which focus around a strange, charismatic figure—the near-naked, unkempt and smelly Jude Mason, with his flowing gray hair, a hippie before his time.

**It's not required to have read the book to join, but there will be major spoilers!**