# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Talk #108: Sour Cherry
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for our July discussion of "Sour Cherry" by Natalia Theodoridou
Our Selection this month was chosen by Jen from Bucket O Blood Books & Music. They have copies in stock, and we encourage you to pick a copy up from them if you can! If you have issues either finding a copy or getting one from the library, please message us directly and we will make sure you get a copy in time. 

Summary from Goodreads:
A stunning reimagining of Bluebeard—one of the most mythologized serial killers—twisted into a modern tale of toxic masculinity, a feminist sermon, and a folktale for the twenty-first century.

The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord’s baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark forest. As he grows into a boy, then into man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Trees wither at the roots, fruits rot on their branches, and the town turns against him. The man takes a wife, who bears him a son. But tragedy strikes in cycles and his family is forced to consider their own malignancy—until wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. The ghosts become a chorus, and they call urgently to our narrator as she tries to explain, in our very real world, exactly what has happened to her. The ghosts can all agree on one thing, an inescapable truth about this man, this powerful lord who has loved them and led them each to ruin: If you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay.

Natalia Theodoridou’s haunting and unforgettable debut novel, Sour Cherry, confronts age-old systems of gender and power, long-held excuses made for bad men, and the complicated reasons we stay captive to the monsters we love.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/book-talk-108-sour-cherry/200030218168214
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Reed's Local
- **lat**: 41.9391
- **long**: -87.70343
- **full address**: Reed's Local, 3017 W Belmont Ave,Chicago, Illinois, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Talk #108: Sour Cherry being held?
  - **A:** Book Talk #108: Sour Cherry takes place on Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Reed's Local, 3017 W Belmont Ave,Chicago, Illinois, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Talk #108: Sour Cherry?
  - **A:** Book Talk #108: Sour Cherry is organized by Melissa Genova Hill.

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