Join our Book Club and embark on this exciting, yearlong exploration of four prize-winning books that have achieved critical acclaim, received nationally recognized literary prizes and stimulated great popular interest.

• Join enthusiastic readers in a yearlong journey as we explore universal themes through the minds of acclaimed Jewish authors.
• Experience the adventure of reading prize-winning books by authors who are recognized as literary masters.
• Engage in dynamic group discussions where questions are encouraged and your thoughts and ideas are welcome.
• Enjoy the relationships that evolve out of participating in mutually satisfying shared experiences.

BOOK LIST

March 1, 2012
Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter by Peter Manseau

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter (National Jewish Book Award 2008) is a completely original and exciting novel that, from its first few lines, holds the reader mesmerized. We are in the hands of a supreme storyteller, an author of wit and charm, one who has a breathtaking flair for language. This is a seriously impressive and accomplished work for a debut novel, identifying Manseau as a writer of great and exciting potential, one is able to see the world vividly, even through other people's eyes.

May 3, 2012
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diana Ackerman

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (W. W. Norton) was selected to receive the 2008 Orion Book Award, which is conferred annually to a book that deepens our connection to the natural world, presents new ideas about our relationship with nature and achieves excellence in writing.


July 5, 2012
All Other Nights by Dara Horn

"In the slam-bang opening pages of her superb third novel, Dara Horn masterfully establishes both a gripping plot premise and a fascinatingly conflicted protagonist. She sends Jacob roaming across a war-torn landscape to encounter a marvelous variety of characters, each imagined with empathy and depth…Horn is too gifted and ambitious an artist to settle for easy reassurances or a facile happy ending; she instead offers her readers the deeper satisfactions of complexity and generosity as she limns a world of agonizing, implacable moral ambiguities and guides her imperfect yet lovable protagonist toward a tentative redemption." —Washington Post

Led by Great Books Facilitator, Rochelle Ginsburg

For more information
Susan Nanus, Director of Adult Programs
snanus@wbtla.org
(424) 208-2152