The History of Love - by Nicole Krauss

It turns out we weren't the first: everybody loves love. Let's sneak into it's diary and see what love has been up to when we weren't looking.
This is a highly recommended read, written by the wife of our last author.
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Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.

Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives...
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Please don't forget we are a media-positive book group. Finish the book and treat yourself to the movie! Audiobookers welcome too.

***The cafe has not been opening on Sundays, so BYO snacks and drinks!