# Event Details - **Event Name**: May Fiction Book Club: All The World Can Hold - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us as we discuss All The World Can Hold by Jung Yun at our May Fiction Book Club!About this EventOld Town Books' Fiction Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of All The World Can Hold at the shop or online and note "book club" to get 10% off.By attending any and all Old Town Books events you are agreeing to our code of conduct.Old Town Books is committed to creating accessible events and spaces for the widest possible audience. Please reach out to us at events@oldtownbooks.com for reasonable accessibility accommodations.About the book:Let the Great World Spin meets The White Lotus when three passengers from wildly different backgrounds board a cruise ship bound for Bermuda shortly after 9/11 and learn en route that they can’t outrun their regrets about the risks not taken.It’s Sunday, September 16, 2001. Franny and her husband have traded in their elegant Park Avenue co-op for a suite on board the Sonata, a once-glittering cruise ship with a complicated history now long past its prime. Though they’re not “cruise people,” Franny is determined to host the trip as planned because it’s her mother’s seventieth birthday, or chilsun, a major rite of passage celebrated by Korean families. But as her husband keeps pointing out, Franny and her mother aren’t close, and it is surreal—even wrong—to be on a cruise as the death toll from the attacks on 9/11 continues to rise.Also on board is Doug, an aging actor and former star of Starlight Voyages, the hit Love Boat–style television series famously filmed on the Sonata. With few professional prospects, a now sober Doug has reluctantly joined his former castmates on a reunion cruise for fans of the show, but he dreads the dark specter of his past misdeeds. Meanwhile, Lucy, the only Black female graduate student in her department at MIT, has uncharacteristically accepted an invitation to join her roommate on the cruise during the height of recruitment season. Lucy’s impulsive decision reflects her growing ambivalence about the tech companies that are trying to hire her, including a new one with a strange-sounding name, Google.All the World Can Hold beautifully explores how we balance our needs and our wants, as well as the regrets we live with and the chances to set them right. And though it’s not a 9/11 novel, it does remind us that while the great world spins, the interpersonal dramas don’t cease, even as more dire ones play out in the larger world. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/alexandria/may-fiction-book-club-all-the-world-can-hold/100001982630156168 - **Event Categories**: Art, Theatre, Entertainment, literary-art, performances - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Alexandria - **state**: VA - **country**: United States - **location**: Old Town Books - **lat**: 38.80359139999999 - **long**: -77.04368099999999 - **full address**: Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: May Fiction Book Club: All The World Can Hold - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/bc281a2e9907877ffcf38838963ec0cfc9870cec3017955b7b75926ee3740b42-rimg-w1200-h600-dc7d8ec2-gmir.jpg?v=1770680773 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is May Fiction Book Club: All The World Can Hold being held? - **A:** May Fiction Book Club: All The World Can Hold takes place on Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing May Fiction Book Club: All The World Can Hold? - **A:** May Fiction Book Club: All The World Can Hold is organized by Old Town Books. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Old Town Books's events? - **A:** Attendees have given Old Town Books a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. 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