Greetings True Believers!
This month’s book is The Changeling by Victor LaValle!
Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:00 PM
Bed-Vyne Cocktail
305 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY
Available in many formats from both the Brooklyn and New York Public Library, as well as many cheap used copies on Amazon, or free as an audiobook with your subscription to Audible.
Join us at Bed-Vyne to discuss the book, and get there early for the many delicious barbecue spots in the area.
“If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
“A dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness. The Changeling is a mesmerizing, monumental work.”—Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
A summer reading pick by The New York Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Vulture • PopSugar • Publishers Weekly
“LaValle’s haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even To Kill a Mockingbird.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Like a woke Brothers Grimm, his clever new spin on the ages-old changeling myth is a modern fairy tale for the Trump era.”—USA Today (four out of four stars)
“Victor LaValle’s fabulist ode to fatherhood and fairy tales offers a new take on themes as old as time.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
Excelsior!