Queer Book Club
Thu, Feb 01
|Ashley's House
Open to all, this is primarily a space for queer folks to meet other people in the community and share their love of reading by diving into books that explore the queer identity!


Time & Location
Feb 01, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Ashley's House, 345 N Marshall St, Lancaster, PA 17602, USA
Guests
About the event
Hello! For February we will be reading by James Baldwin.Giovanni's Room
In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love--"a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (). The Atlantic
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella's return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into…