Womrath Book Club - December 2024

Hoping to find more incredible reads? Then welcome to the Womrath Book Club, a gathering of bookworms and literature enthusiasts! Each month we will be selecting one of our staff picks for you to read, and us to discuss together. This event will take place on the third Thursday of each month.

For our December 19th session, we will be reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. This dazzling, moving novel is full of love and poignancy. Rooney is a master of the craft, and her writing soars to new heights with this book. It's one you don't want to miss!

This in-person event will be held at Womrath Bookshop on Pondfield Road in Bronxville, NY, USA. We'll dive into captivating stories, exchange thoughts, and discover new literary gems together. Whether you're a seasoned reader or just starting your reading journey, this club is for you! Let's embark on an exciting literary adventure together at the Womrath Book Club!

This event is free, but registration is required.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times (UK), and Publishers Weekly
A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of the Year
A New Yorker and Vulture Best Book of the Year (So Far)
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends; Normal People; and Beautiful World, Where Are You. She also contributed to the writing and production of the Hulu/BBC television adaptation of Normal People.

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