December 11 | 11am | RSVP Below
OJMCHE’s book club will meet every other month midday at the museum. The book selection for December is Fervor by Toby Lloyd.
To stay in the loop about book club activities, email akurson@ojmche.org and we will keep you updated.
About Book Selection for December
“What would happen if the Witch of Endor — the ancient biblical seer who was able to summon the departed prophet, Samuel, for King Saul before going into battle against the Philistines — was reborn in modern times as the daughter of a famed British writer? And what if this new witch’s eccentricities, depression, and substance abuse provided great literary fodder for her mother?
‘When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished,’ the Polish Jewish poet Czeslaw Milosz was quoted as saying. Toby Lloyd’s debut novel, Fervor, attempts to test this assertion.
Fervor asks serious questions about what it means to be Jewish, religious, British, and a member of a strange and estranged family.” —From a review by Max Gross