book group

JCC MetroWest presents, Peter Blauner, “Picture in the Sand” Peter Blauner’s epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather’s passionate letters to his grandson,…

JCC MetroWest presents, Armando Lucas Correa, “The Night Travelers” Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to…

JCC MetroWest presents, Lauren Grodstein, “We Must Not Think of Ourselves” In time for Yom Hashoah comes this heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based…

JCC MetroWest presents, Daisy Alpert Florin, “My Last Innocent Year” It’s 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left…

JCC MetroWest presents, Jennifer Rosner, “Once We Were Home” Among the tragedies of WWII were the Jewish children separated from their families, given new names, and instructed to follow new…

JCC MetroWest presents, Andrew Ridker, “Hope” Ridker’s slashing satire of upper-middle-class life turns on the foibles of a seemingly charmed Jewish family in Brookline, Mass. Scott Greenspan is a well-respected…

JCC MetroWest presents, Buzzy Jackson, “To Die Beautiful” Based on the true story of Hannie Schaft, known to the Nazis as the Girl with Red Hair. It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft…

JCC MetroWest presents, Cathleen Schine, “Kunstlers in Paradise” For years, clever and glamorous Mamie Künstler, 93, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her housekeeper and gigantic…

JCC MetroWest presents, Rachel Beanland, “The House Is On Fire” Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction…

JCC MetroWest presents, Elizabeth Graver, “Kantika” A dazzling, Sephardic, multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows…