Join BMC alumnae/I in reading both fiction and non-fiction, mostly avoiding the most current books but delving into older ones we may have missed, especially for fiction.
Meetings are generally held in the afternoon but could be moved to the evening for those who can’t attend during the day.
Please contact Marilyn V. at northerncalifornia@brynmawr.edu for meeting location.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken—the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings.