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Brunchin’ with the Author featuring Kyra Davis Lurie, author of The Great Mann
Literature Noir is a virtual book club that amplifies the work of BIPOC authors.
Every book chosen is curated to diversify your bookshelf and get you out your genre comfort zone.
We host community events catered to the Greater Los Angeles community such as our signature event called Brunchin’ with the Author — an intimate space to connect with authors and local readers.
May Book Club Pick
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor—a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon’s feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.
Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
