- Flynn Center/Fletcher Free Library Book Club
- Come exchange thoughts on books that inspired some of this season’s
Flynn performances – and get a discount on tickets to the related show!
In February, read Ana Castillo’s Peel My Love Like an Onion (connection: Noche Flamenca, Friday, February 13) and in March, read Jessica Queller’s Pretty Is What Changes (connection: Liz Lerman’s Ferocious Beauty: Genome, Saturday, March 7).
Meeting dates below. Contact the Fletcher Free library for information on book selections, meeting dates, and registration at 802-865-7211 for info. FREE!
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What not to miss this semester!
Noche Flamenca
"Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel" by Ana
Castillo
Wednesday, February 11 at 7:30 pm (Group
Leader TBA)
Castillo’s seductive novel flowers at the exotic intersection of
Chicago’s flamenco, Gypsy and Chicano communities, where
Carmen Santos, a defiant ex-flamenco dancer, struggles with the
end of her career and the dissolution of a passionate love
triangle. Left with a crippled leg after a childhood bout of polio,
Carmen has always been defined by those around her—her
parents, the school for the disabled she attended, her lovers and
her public, who know her as La Coja (the cripple).
Related MainStage Performance: Friday, February 13 at 8 pm
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: "Ferocious Beauty: Genome"
"Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible
Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and
How I Defied My Destiny" by Jessica Queller
Wednesday, March 11 at 7:30 pm (Group Leader TBA)
Queller was 31, single and healthy when her mother succumbed
to ovarian cancer at the age of 58, having battled breast cancer
six years earlier. Queller chronicles her mother’s long and
anguished struggle in vivid detail. After her mother’s death, at
the suggestion of an acquaintance, Queller opted to discover
whether she carries the breast cancer gene; indeed, she tested
positive for the BRCA-1 gene mutation, which gave her an 87%
chance of breast cancer before age 50 and a 44% chance of
ovarian cancer in her lifetime. With this knowledge in hand,
Queller began the journey toward her pivotal choice: a prophylactic
double mastectomy at age 35.
Related MainStage Performance: Saturday, March 7 at 8 pm
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