BOOK CLUB
Tue, Sep 24
|Avondale Estates
Cocktails & Conversation Book Club with host, Betsy Garmon
Time & Location
Sep 24, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Avondale Estates, 2866 Washington St, Avondale Estates, GA 30002, USA
Guests
About the event
Your ticket to this event is the price of the book! Join host betsy Garmon as she leads us through a cocktails and conversation book club.
Historical Fiction. Magical Realism. Romance. Fantasy
THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced…