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Harvard Club of sacramento Book group: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Our September non-fiction selection: Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks. The book group discussion will occur in hybrid format, to be held both in-person and via Zoom. Join us!
Written on a remote island off the coast of Brooks' Australian homeland, Memorial Days emerged through the author's complex period of mourning three years after the sudden death of her husband and fellow-writer, Tony Horowitz. This book review from the New York Times (click here) recounts some of the events and memories that marked the power literary couple.
"A graceful and moving meditation on bereavement," Brooks in Memorial Days "pays homage to the loving, gregarious Horwitz, lashes out at America’s flawed medical system, and deftly conveys the ongoing reverberations of her shattering experience. Like other widowed writers (Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates), Brooks both relives the trauma of her husband’s death and keeps his cherished memory alive." - Kirkus Reviews (click here).
For more on Memorial Days, check out the reviews and notes on Amazon.
PAST BOOKS discussed by the HARVARD CLUB of SACRAMENTO BOOK GROUP
2025: Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. I Cannot Control Everything Forever by Emily Bloom. James by Percival Everett.
2024: When McKinsey Comes to Town by Bogdanovich and Forsythe. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel. A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen (with a special Zoom session with Viet Thank Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize Winner!)
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When: Thursday, September 11, 2025, @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PT
Where: Both in-person and Zoom, use this Zoom link for the virtual option.
RSVP: RSVP to lindashortliffe@stanford.edu. If you plan to attend in-person, please email Linda Shortliffe for the meeting address. We look forward to your participation in our Club's Book Group!