Name: Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Start: 2025-12-14T20:00:00.000Z
Location: Demetres Desserts Distillery District

For November, we'll read A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

247 pages
First published in 1967

About the book:
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, *A Grain of Wheat* follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

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Helen L.

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A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Demetres Desserts Distillery District

For December, we'll read Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
240 pages,
First published in 1833

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugénie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugénie's own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with her father that results in tragedy for all. Eugénie Grandet is one of the earliest and finest works in Balzac's Comédie humaine cycle, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. Here Grandet embodies both the passionate pursuit of money, and the human cost of avarice.

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Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac

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