• A copy of that months quite brilliant book club book (please collect from Portobello Books as soon as you have booked)
• A glass of wine (or soft drink) on arrival to help get the conversation started
• Cheese. Lots of cheese to keep the discussion flowing

For September we have selected I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani

A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family: Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and change in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium. Lyrical and open-hearted, I Will Greet the Sun Again is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes.

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