RAINBOWLIT: LGBTQ+ BOOK GROUP

RainbowLit: LGBTQ+ Book Group. This group meets every 4th Monday of the month and is sponsored by the Library and the Belmont LGBTQ+ Alliance. We read fiction, non-fiction, and sometimes poetry.

MONDAY, January 22 at 7:00—8:30 PM Online. Registration required.

This month’s book: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Register: https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/rainbowlit-lgbtq-book-group-19/

You won't be able to pick up the book at the library, so please request the book and pick it up at Beech Street Center. Click on the following link. https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2502800?lang=eng