Book club meeting 16

This month we’re reading Women’s Prize Winner The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki.

The book follows fourteen-year-old Benny Oh, who begins to hear voices after the tragic death of this father. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous.

So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it…

We’ll meet for the book club in the shop on Wednesday 7 September @ 7pm – everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers, just drop us an email at orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk to come along!