RL Book Club #98: "Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis

Name: RL Book Club #98: "Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis
Start: 2025-05-27T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Reed's Local

Schedule

Tue, 27 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Reed's Local | Chicago, IL

Join us for the Reed's Local Book Club May Meetup! We will be reading"Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis. Anyone who loves books, talking about books with cool people, and doing it in a dive bar setting are welcome to join!
Snacks will be provided. Oh boy, are there snacks!
Description from Storygraph.com:
Here is a first novel like no other: a spellbinding tale that both creates its own fully realized world perspective and provides an incisive look at the ways that humans and animals resemble each other. A group of elegant monster dogs in top hats, tails, and bustle skirts become instant celebrities when they come to New York in 2008. Refugees from a town whose residents had been utterly isolated for a hundred years, the dogs retain the nineteenth-century Germanic culture of the humans who created them. They are wealthy and glamorous and seem to lead charmed lives - but they find adjusting to the modern world difficult, and when a young woman, Cleo Pira, befriends them, she discovers that a strange, incurable illness threatens them all with extinction. When the dogs construct their dream home, a fantastic castle on the Lower East Side, and barricade themselves inside, Cleo finds herself one of the few human witnesses to a mad, lavish party that may prove to be the final act in the drama of the lives of the monster dogs.