Our next book will be Piranesi by Suzanne Clarke. This strange story is fantastical, lyrical, poetic, and mysterious. It is reminiscent of wild and symbolic worlds like Narnia.

From GoodReads: ”Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.”

Our discussion of this book will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23. Note: Do not be dismayed if you are disoriented at the beginning of the book! Just keep reading. :)

Copies of the book are already available in-store at House Finch in Collingswood, or you can order online through House Finch’s online bookshop site: https://bookshop.org/lists/suburban-jungle-book-club

Email hello@suburbanjunglenj.org for more details! Or join the Suburban Jungle Book Club group on Facebook