Hi everyone!
Come join us for our book club discussion on our first play, Tony Kushner's Angels in America! We'll discuss what we thought of the story over some refreshments, then pick out our book for the next month.
If you're not familiar with the novel, here is a description from Goodreads: "In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs."
If you'd like to get a start on May's book, we will be reading Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jędrowski. Feel free to bring suggestions for the June selection. While there's no hard-and-fast rules about what can be nominated, try to keep focused on stories that fit somewhere in the acronym: LGBTQIA+.
You don't need to purchase the book each month to join. I personally use the smartphone apps Libby or Hoopla to borrow an e-book copy from the Santa Barbara Public Library, while other members borrow physical versions from the Library. If you do end up purchasing a copy, do try to support your local bookstores like Chaucer's Books on State Street. Audiobook readers are welcome as well- whatever works best for you!
