The Red Book Club

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Upcoming Events

The month of August we will be reading Jody Shields book: The Fig Eater at Debbie Fields' home, Sunday, August 25th from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

REVIEW:

"The Fig Eater takes readers, with mesmerizing clarity, to Vienna in 1910.... Ms. Shields flashes dazzling stereopticon slides of a city floating between opposites: the fading nineteenth century and the bustling twentieth, the analytical male point of view and the intuitive female, the scientific and the superstitious. Ms. Shields has a powerful gift for poetic and painterly imagery. Her startling scenes, rich in metaphor, linger long in memory."-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"Hypnotic.. The Fig Eater abounds with sensual pleasures... Satisfying as a nuts and bolts story of detective work in early twentieth century Vienna, the novel also leaves us with the haunting sense that we can approach the truth only by opening our minds to more than one way of knowing."- Maria Russo Salon.com

"Vienna, 1910. The hunt for a killer begins in the darkness of a hot August night, when an eighteen year old girl named Dora (loosely inspired by Freud's famous patient) is found brutally murdered near the Imperial Place.... Hailed as one of the most remarkable literary debuts of recent years, The Fig Eater is at once a page turning tale of murder, sleuthing, and sexual secrets and a rich, glittering evocation of a city and a culture in fateful transition."

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