September Book Club
When: September 21st at 7 pm
Where: The Wine Bar by The Winery
4301 La Jolla Village Dr Suite 2045, San Diego, CA 92122
Floor 2 Westfield UTC
https://www.thewinerylajolla.com/the-wine-bar-la-jolla
Fall is on its way and so in our September book club meeting! Join us as we discuss The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel.
Description from Amazon "From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives."
Looking ahead: For those that like to plan ahead, book club is held on the third Tuesday of each month. The book club selection for October is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
