Short Story Book Club: Giovanni's Room

Gionanni's Room by James Baldwin is about "David, a young American man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni. The entire story is narrated by David during "the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life," when Giovanni will be executed. Baldwin tackles social isolation, gender and sexual identity crisis, as well as conflicts of masculinity within this story of a young bisexual man navigating the public sphere in a society that rejects a core aspect of his sexuality."

Join us the last Tuesday morning at 10am in the small conference room to talk about this short story. All books are under 250 pages long. Hope to see you to talk about this classic.