LBB Lit Fic Book Club, 29 October | Event in Brooklyn | AllEvents

LBB Lit Fic Book Club

Liz’s Book Bar

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Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1 hour

Liz's Book Bar

Starting at USD 15

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Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm (GMT-04:00)

Liz's Book Bar

315 Smith Street, Brooklyn, United States

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LBB Lit Fic Book Club
Join the Liz's Book Bar Literary Fiction Book Club. We're reading Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu

About this Event

Luster meets The Idiot in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early '90s art world in New York City, where only one of them can make it.Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl’s school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken care of by an ill, unloving aunt, is one of the only other students attending the school on a scholarship. Ruth is drawn forcefully into Maria’s orbit, and they fall into an easy, yet intense, friendship. Her devotion to her charming and bright new friend opens up her previously sheltered world.While Maria, charismatic and aware of her ability to influence others, eases into her full self, embracing her sexuality and her desire to be an artist, Ruth is mostly content to follow her around: to college and then into the early-nineties art world of New York City. There, ambition and competition threaten to rupture their friendship, while strong and unspoken forces pull them together over the years. Whereas Maria finds early success in New York City as an artist, Ruth stumbles along the fringes of the art world, pulled toward a quieter life of work and marriage. As their lives converge and diverge, they meet in one final and fateful confrontation.Ruth and Maria's decades-long friendship interrogates the nature of intimacy, desire, class and time. What does it mean to be an artist and to be true to oneself? What does it mean to give up on an obsession? Marking the arrival of a sensational new literary talent, Lonely Crowds challenges us to reckon honestly with our own ambitions and the lives we hope to lead.

You can purchase the book here.

The discussion will be led by writer, MFA graduate, and LBB bookseller, Maeve.


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LBB Lit Fic Book Club, 29 October | Event in Brooklyn | AllEvents
LBB Lit Fic Book Club
Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
USD 15