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Book Group: Sam Sussman
Rita Apollon | FRI, AUG 15, 2025JCC MetroWest presents, Sam Sussman, Boy From the North Country When Evan, twenty-six, is called home to the secluded farmhouse where he was raised, he doesn’t yet know his mother…
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Book Group: Mary Morris
Rita Apollon | FRI, AUG 15, 2025JCC MetroWest presents, Mary Morris, The Red House Laura’s mother, Viola, vanished 30 years ago, leaving behind unsettling paintings of a red house, all containing the phrase, “I will not…
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Book Group: Esther Chehebar
Rita Apollon | FRI, AUG 15, 2025JCC MetroWest presents, Esther Chehebar, Sisters of Fortune The Cohen sisters—Fortune, the middle sister, preparing for her upcoming arranged marriage; Nina, the 26-year-old eldest, struggling with single life and newfound…
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Book Group: Cynthia Weiner
Rita Apollon | FRI, AUG 15, 2025JCC MetroWest presents, Cynthia Weiner, A Gorgeous Excitement “A Gorgeous Excitement,” Freud’s term for cocaine, is central to this 1980s coming-of-age tale about a Jewish teenager attempting to fit into…
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Book Group: Allegra Goodman
Rita Apollon | FRI, AUG 15, 2025JCC MetroWest presents, Allegra Goodman, Isola Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian, accusing her of…
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Book Group: Alka Joshi
Rita Apollon | TUE, AUG 05, 2025JCC MetroWest presents, Alka Joshi, Six Days in Bombay This sweeping novel takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter’s…
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Book Group: Emily Matchar
JCC MetroWest | FRI, AUG 30, 2024JCC MetroWest presents, Emily Matchar, In the Shadow of the Greenbriar Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbriar Resort. Long a playground…
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Book Group: Ayelet Tsabari
JCC MetroWest | FRI, AUG 30, 2024JCC MetroWest presents, Ayelet Tsabari, Songs for the Brokenhearted A Yemeni Israeli story of mothers and daughters, love and loss, and secrets untold, the novel shines a light on a…
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Book Group: Sasha Vasilyuk
JCC MetroWest | FRI, AUG 30, 2024JCC MetroWest presents, Sasha Vasilyuk, Your Presence is Mandatory A riveting debut novel, based on real events, Your Presence is Mandatory is about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with…
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Book Group: Zibby Owens
JCC MetroWest | FRI, AUG 30, 2024JCC MetroWest presents, Zibby Owens, Blank A wife, a mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel, Blank, about family,…
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