We will meet at the Quaker meetinghouse in West Hartford to discuss *Elizabeth Costello,* a novel by vegan author and Nobel Prize winner, J. M. Coetzee, and a selection from this year’s project book, *Cooking from the Spirit,* by Tabitha Brown.

☕️ Doors open at 2:45 for socializing and refreshments. 🧁

Discussion starts at 3 PM.
You are welcome to bring a vegan snack (optional).
Coffee and tea will be provided.

About the reading:
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably toward its astonishing conclusion. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought in unerring prose, *Elizabeth Costello* is, on its surface, the story of a woman’s life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling that only a writer of Coetzee’s caliber could accomplish.