The Book Club – Afternoon
This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 29th January 2-3 pm in-store. This month, we are reading Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto . £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here.
If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.
For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597365380.
One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the questions.
We always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.
About the book
A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story.
Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.
Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter’s struggles with identity and acceptance, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story, of how as a teen she was sent by her Indo-Chinese parents from Jakarta to Los Angeles for her education and fell in love with someone completely forbidden to her by both culture and gender norms—Ellery, an American college student who became Magnolia’s best friend and the love of her life. Stretching across decades and continents, Magnolia’s star-crossed love story reveals how life can take unexpected turns but ultimately lead you to exactly who you’re meant to be.