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BAW Virtual Book Club (Daytime Meeting)

Thursday, November 12, 2020 25 Cheshvan 5781

1:00 PM - 2:30 PMZoom Videoconference (register for details)

Discussion of  The World to Come by Dara Horn 

A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a thirty-year-old quiz-show writer. As Benjamin and his twin sister try to evade the police, they find themselves recalling their dead parents — the father who lost a leg in Vietnam, the mother who created children's books — and their stories about trust, loss, and betrayal.

With astonishing grace and simplicity, Dara Horn interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology and Yiddish literature. Richly satisfying, utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come" — not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now.

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An evening virtual BAW Book Club session is also being offered on Monday, November 9 from 7:30 to 9:00 PM. (Please register for that session separately.)

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