Enzo & Morgan's Batshit Book Club

 

 

Are you too hardcore for the current state of American letters? The tragic truth is that most new books seem afraid to shock, experiment, offend, get weird. Is there still a place in this world for the freaky girlies? The answer is yes. Morgan and Enzo are two booksellers at McNally Jackson Seaport who delight in the decadent, the debased, and the degenerate. Now, they open their private reading circle to the last libertines in New York. This won’t be a cozy time by the fireplace. We don’t talk to Reese Witherspoon. We don’t know Oprah. This is Batshit Book Club, and baby, there will be no seatbelts.

This month we'll discuss Margarita Karapanou's tour de force, a disturbing portrait of childhood, Kassandra and the Wolf. 

"Karapanou" write[s] of childhood with such lyric ferocity; her 'Kassandra and the Wolf' has [a] jagged fantastic substance" with a vicious pre-pubescent sexual element chillingly added."— John Updike, New York Times

A frank, poetic, uncluttered graph of the state of childhood.— Edna O'Brien

Six-year-old Kassandra is given a doll: “I put her to sleep in her box, but first I cut off her legs and arms so she’d fit,” she tells us, “Later, I cut her head off too, so she wouldn’t be so heavy. Now I love her very much.” Kassandra is an unforgettable narrator, a perfect, brutal guide to childhood as we’ve never seen it—a journey that passes through the looking glass but finds the darkest corners of the real world.

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Reserve your place with a $5 voucher, redeemable on the night of the book club meeting on any product in store.