July Branch Out Book Club: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Join booksellers Caleb and Katie for Titcomb's Bookshop's Branch Out Book Club! Our July book club selection is Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, and our meeting will be held at Titcomb's Bookshop on Tuesday, July 29th at 6:30pm.

Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling the bookshop at 508-888-2331.

ABOUT THE BRANCH OUT BOOK CLUB

This book club, hosted by booksellers Katie (Marketing & Communications Specialist) and Caleb (Antiquarian/Used Books Specialist), invites folks to read books that may be outside of their typical reading comfort zone.

From offbeat literary fiction to fantasy, romance, or sci-fi, we aim to expand our minds by expanding our reading choices. Each month, we will mix up the genre or theme and offer a welcoming environment for our community to read together and share thoughts and reflections.

The Branch Out Book Club will meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at Titcomb's Bookshop (unless otherwise noted).

ABOUT THE BOOK

“A masterpiece of literary horror.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.” —The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time” (Kazuo Ishiguro).

A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?

Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mariana Enriquez is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. She has published two story collections in English, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Megan McDowell has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle-Inclán, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize (four times) and the Kirkus Prize. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile.

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