Book Club

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.  Fiction.  Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece.  Viktor and Liesel, a rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all of their hopes for their marriage and budding family into their stunning new home, filling it with children, friends, and a generation of artists and thinkers eager to abandon old-world European style in favor of the new and the avant-garde. But as life intervenes, their new home also brings out their most passionate desires and darkest secrets. The radiant honesty and idealism of 1930 quickly evaporate beneath the storm clouds of World War II.

9:00-10:15 a.m.

Third Saturday of each month

Book Club meetings are open to any interested reader.  For more information, please contact Marjina Kaplan