In Person Book Club Meeting

NOTE: This In-person event is open only to members of the Page Turners Book Club. The exact location will be sent to members who RSVP. The meeting will start at 10:15 AM.

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (2023; 320 pages; historical fiction)

From Amazon.com:
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert’s, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threaten a rift that could alter more lives than one. A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow. Acknowledged by several prize committees, and named a best/notable book by The New Yorker, NPR, SLATE, The Financial Times and The Washington Post.