HBTogether Book Club

Monthly, Wednesdays, 11:00 am

Join us! We discuss a different title each month; newcomers are always welcome even if you haven’t read the book. For further information and to register please contact Caroline Ingvaldsen at [email protected]

September 4:
The Most Amazing Department Store by Sharon Neiss
Holy Blossom’s own Sharon Neiss will present her charming and nostalgic recreation of the lives and loves of the young women working at Montreal’s Sunderland Department Store in the 1950’s.

November 6:
In Sickness and in Health; Yom Kippur in the Gym by Nora Gold
In this flip book, two moving novellas reveal the limits and powers of love when lives are changed in extraordinary ways,

December 4:
People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
The prize-winning author challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.

February 5:
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
This gripping novel depicts the harrowing journey through centuries of exile and war of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain.

March 5:
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
Three unforgettable heroines share their stories of the calamitous costs and extraordinary rewards of victory that shaped post-war Britain.

April 2:
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Marrano Luzia Cotado navigates the murky waters of magic, science and fraud while evading the perils of the Inquisition in Madrid with the help of an embittered immortal.

May 7:
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The true story of Lale Sokolov and his beloved Gita is a testament to the endurance of love and humanity during the Shoah.

June 3:
Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig
This lost feminist classic set in mid-twentieth century Toronto is the extraordinary story of Shirley Kaszenbowski, the embodiment of the invisible woman.