📅 Date: Tuesday, 18th of November 2024
🕡 Time: 19:00 - 20:30
📍 Location: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9DX
The Love Tank's official Book Club is here! Join us for our bimonthly meetings at Housmans Bookshop for some in-depth readings and discussions on authors of African, Carribbean, SWANA, Asian, and Latine descent, led by esteemed writer and journalist Elias Jahshan.
📕 November's Book 📕
“You Exist Too Much” by Zaina Arafat
In Arafat’s debut novel, her protagonist’s progresses from blushing teen to sought–after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as “love addiction.” In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.
How it works:
Once you sign up, we ask you to get yourself a copy of this month's book, and to have as much of a read through it as you can ahead of the group meeting.
We have 10 copies of the book to give away - if you would like one, please let us know, and you can collect it from our office in Bethnal Green ahead of the group meeting, or we can post it to you. Our limited budget means we won't be able to give a free copy to everyone, so please let us know if you're happy to purchase your own copy.
Come as you are and join us for an enriching literary experience filled with warmth, inclusivity, and celebration of queer narratives. Reserve your free ticket now! 🌈🎬
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Accessibility Information:
🏠 Accessible Venue: The event takes place at Housman's bookshop on the ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. While there isn't an accessible toilet on this level, Housman's have an arrangement with the restaurant next door where patrons can make use of the accessible toilet if they say they're with us.
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