What we’re about
Welcome all! This is a reading club that requires a little less commitment than traditional ones (plus, short stories are great). We'll be choosing a short story collection each month and meeting to discuss it in an informal setting over beverages.
Feel free to read the entire collection or just a few stories, whatever you have time for! We can talk about individual pieces or simply the general vibe of the collection. Let's bring together readers and make some new friends :)
Upcoming events (2)
See all- June Meeting: Viet Thanh Nguyen - The RefugeesSante Adairius Rustic Ales Oakland Arbor, Oakland, CA
Recommended Stories:
- Black-Eyed Women
- War Years
- Fatherland (available online from the author's site here)
For June, we'll read Viet Thanh Nguyen, a writer I was lucky enough to see speak in early April, and who will be giving another talk in late April! This collection comes highly recommended from a trusted source, so I'm sure it will lead to some great discussion - Ben
For First-Timers: We recommend reading at least one story in the collection, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and covers the whole collection, but we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above.
About the collection:
The Refugees is Nguyen’s debut collection of short stories. It arrived carrying the considerable weight of expectation following The Sympathizer's triumph. The collection delves into the lives of individuals caught between worlds—Vietnam and America, past and present, memory and reality. These stories were composed over a period of twenty years.
