February 19th
6 PM
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Curtis Chin
Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung’s, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy’s childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him—and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.
Biography/Memoir
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.
Historical Fiction
March 19 @ 6 PM
Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde
Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russett experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray Nightseer Jane, who suggests that their color-blind world was brought about by a disaster that nobody is allowed to acknowledge.
Science Fiction/Fantasy
April 16 @ 6 PM
The Secret Hours
Mick Heron
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service 'to investigate historical over-reaching.' Now the administration that brought Monochrome into being has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust, and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects swirl down the drain.
Thriller/Suspense
May 21 @ 6 PM
