Books & Brews

a book club for adults

Colored Television

by Danzy Senna

Jane is a struggling writer who hopes that she's finally going to get her big break. After years of living paycheck to paycheck, she, her artist husband, and their two kids have temporarily moved into a home in the hills of Los Angeles. Jane hopes she can finally finish her novel, a mulatto epic that never seems to play out just right. In the meantime, she turns her desperate eyes to Hollywood, where she lands a job creating "diverse content" for a streaming network--specifically, a biracial comedy. Everything seems to be going right... until it all goes terribly wrong.

Grim Readers

a dark book club for adults

Cora Zeng makes a living cleaning crime scenes. She's desensitized to the bloody work; nothing can be worse than seeing her sister pushed in front of a train. With only the murderer's whispered insult--"bat eater"--as clue, the case has gone cold. Cora has been fighting the sense of dread she feels, even as she and her coworkers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scenes. Even as she realizes that the recent clean-ups have been for murdered East Asian women. But there's one thing she can't ignore: the call of hungry ghosts.

Where: Leander Library

When: September 9, at 6pm