Highbrow/Low Commitment Book Club: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà

A bimonthly book club for the busy literature lovers featuring titles around 200 pages or less. We slip into fall with I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (154 pages). An audacious and entrancing novel in which the lines between the dead and the living, past and present, story and history are blurred. Over the course of generations, the women who inhabit a house in the mountains of Catalonia bear witness to wolves, the ravages of war, witches, bandits, and the devil in various guises. Irene Solà draws on oral tradition as well as art, literature, and fairy tales to tell a completely new kind of story. Club meets in person at the Clinton Hill branch every other month. Register online for updates and reminders. Copies of the book are available for pick up at the branch, just ask at the reference desk. Library card required for check out.