Vegan Book Club

We will meet at the Quaker meetinghouse in West Hartford to discuss Elizabeth Costello, a novel by vegan author and Nobel Prize winner, J. M. Coetzee, and a selection from this year's project book, Cooking from the Spirit, by Tabitha Brown.

☕️ Doors open at 2:45 for socializing and refreshments. 🧁

Discussion starts at 3 PM.
You are welcome to bring a vegan snack (optional).
Coffee and tea will be provided.

About the reading:
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably toward its astonishing conclusion. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought in unerring prose, Elizabeth Costello is, on its surface, the story of a woman’s life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling that only a writer of Coetzee’s caliber could accomplish.