Annotated Book Club reads Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg

Welcome to Annotated, a Bookends & Beginnings book club! We focus on genre-bending, boundary-pushing fiction in bite-sized packages. All selected titles are written by women or gender-queer authors and are read in translation.

This month, we'll be reading Avril Bardoni's translation of Valentino and Sagittarius, a set of two novellas by Natalia Ginzburg. Compiled together by NYRB, both of these works are celebrated for their swift, exacting prose and mordant humor. Like much of the 20th-century Italian author's ouvre, Valentino and Sagittarius are tales of love, hope, family, and delusion.

All book club attendees are required to purchase tickets through Eventbrite. You may buy the book at a 15% discount (sales tax included in the price) or select the option to buy a certificate of the same value, to be redeemed on any in-store purchases on or before the event date. Certificates can be used on all in-store items except at the MiniBar.

The meeting will run from 6:00-7:00 PM, with a Happy Hour from 5:00-6:00 that attendees are encouraged to attend.

About Annotated: If your shelves are studded with NYRB and Fitzcarraldo titles, this is the book club for you. Rather than looking for the next big thing, we're more interested in what's too often overlooked: underrepresented voices, sleeper classics, and the books that get under your skin. Form can be fluid, and some Annotated selections may lean more towards poetry, memoir, or narrative non-fiction, but the majority will be fiction. Group members are always encouraged to suggest titles! We believe that a good education is an expansive one, and as such, we commit to choosing books by writers from different regions, literary traditions, and backgrounds.

Annotated Book Club meetings are led by Molly, the Events and Marketing Coordinator at Bookends & Beginnings.

Host or Publisher Bookends & Beginnings