10720 Preston Rd. Ste. 1009B | Dallas, Texas 75230
Interabang Book Club
Our adult book buyer Lori Feathers facilitates an interesting and lively discussion about a fiction or non-fiction title each month here at the store. Come and share your opinions about the book and glean a deeper or different understanding of it from other readers. All are welcome!
UPCOMING BOOK CLUBS
$16.95
ISBN: 9780307474346
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - September 4th, 2012
Wednesday, May 1 -- 7pmOur pick for May's book club is The Stranger's Child, a National Book Critics Award finalist from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s home outside London. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him. That weekend, Cecil writes a poem that, after he is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250118325
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador - April 4th, 2017
Wednesday, June 5 -- 7PM
“Smith’s new novel unfolds slowly, and each moment of illumination offers a glimpse into the true heart of this quiet, captivating tale. Spanning more than three centuries, it is the story of three lives --a female master painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a moneyed New York patent attorney, and an art history student turned one-time art forger -- each changed by one haunting painting. Filled with hurt, grief, and deceit, but also layered with love, grace, and regret, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a wonderful read, beautifully written.”
— Heather Duncan (M), Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CODESCRIPTION
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it.
New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer’s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict.
Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably.
PAST BOOK CLUBS
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735215092
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - February 5th, 2019
Wednesday, April 3 -- 7pm
Our book for this month is The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin.
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes.
The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel struggles to maintain security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
Both a dazzling family love story and a sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525435990
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - February 5th, 2019
Wednesday, March 6 -- 7pm
Our pick for March's book club is A Long Way from Home. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the 1954 Redex Trial, a weeks-long endurance contest of a car race that circles the entire continent. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator: deposed quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher Willie Bachhuber. If they win the Redex, the Bobs name alone will get them a dealership, and Willie will have recharged a life currently ground to a halt. But before any of that might happen, their official strip maps will lead them, without warning, out of the comfortable white Australia they know so well. A breakneck, often hilarious, eye-opening adventure that at the same time reminds us how white people took possession of a timeless culture—the high purpose they invented, and the crimes they committed along the way—A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey’s late-style masterpiece.
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393303940
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - December 17th, 1999
Wednesday, February 6 -- 7pm
Our pick for February's Book Club is Good Morning, Midnight. This is the story of Sasha Jensen, who has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest moments and her most desperate. Her past lies in wait for her in cafes, bars, and dress shops, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and reality. When she is picked up by a young man, she begins to feel that she is still capable of desires and emotions. Few encounters in fiction have been so brilliantly conceived, and few have come to a more unforgettable end.
$14.95
ISBN: 9781503901933
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Amazon Crossing - October 16th, 2018
Wednesday, January 2 -- 7PM
Our book for this month is In Your Hands, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning novel spanning three generations of women united in their struggle for independence and fulfillment against oppression. Through revealing journals, snapshots of a turbulent era, and private letters, the lives of these three generations unfold, embracing all that has separated them and all that binds them--their strength, their secrets, and their search for love through the currents of change.
$15.00
ISBN: 9780679720218
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - May 7th, 1991
Wednesday, October 3 -- 7PM
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus’ novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
$15.00
ISBN: 9781933372006
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Europa Editions - September 2005
Wednesday, September 5 -- 7PM
$16.95
ISBN: 9780375726347
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - May 8th, 2001
Wednesday, August 8 -- 7PM
$15.99
ISBN: 9780316216371
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Back Bay Books - December 11th, 2012
Thursday, July 12 -- 7PM
$15.95
ISBN: 9780307386175
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor - June 10th, 2008
WEDNESDAY, June 6th -- 7 PM
It's 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in ON CHESIL BEACH a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
$16.95
ISBN: 9780345802507
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - January 6th, 2015
Wednesday, May 2 -- 7PM
$16.00
ISBN: 9780399576119
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - February 6th, 2018
Wednesday, April 11 -- 7PM
$9.00
ISBN: 9780375751516
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Modern Library - June 1998
Wednesday, March 7 -- 7PM
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307743763
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - February 4th, 2014
Wednesday, February 7 -- 7PM
Our February book club selection is THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS by the wonderful Clair Messud. Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people’s achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family--dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza--draws her into a complex and exciting new world. Nora’s happiness pushes her beyond her boundaries, until Sirena’s careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
$14.99
ISBN: 9780060757502
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - September 2nd, 2014
Wednesday, January 3 -- 7PM
$18.65
ISBN: 9781400096657
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Anchor - July 8th, 2008
WEDNESDAY, November 8 -- 7PM
Our November book club read is THE EXCEPTION by Christian Jungersen: a provocative novel that explores conflicts, both interoffice and on the international scale. When workers at a Danish non-profit that investigates genocide starts receiving death threats, they suspect the Serbian war criminal whom they have exposed. But then, the office workers begin to suspect each other. Jungersen’s novel is a psychological thriller quite unlike any other.
$14.95
ISBN: 9781931883627
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Two Lines Press - July 11th, 2017
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4 -- 7PM
MY HEART HEMMED IN is extraordinary: an original and suspenseful novel that exposes all that is monstrous and ugly in the way that we regard those around us -- our tendency to harbor suspicions, judgments and prejudices against people we do not want or even try, to understand. Ndiaye takes us inside the disturbing mind of Nadia, her unforgettable protagonist, with writing that is arresting; the tension, immediately palpable, builds steadily. The temptation to turn the pages quickly is great but the prose is so fine that you will want to savor it. With its unsettling atmosphere reminiscent of Doris Lessing’s THE FIFTH CHILD, Ndiaye’s brilliant novel obtains pride of place with the very best literary horror. MY HEART HEMMED IN is a morality tale for our times.
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250131676
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 3rd, 2017
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 -- 7 PM
Our September book club pick is Tiffany McDaniel’s THE SUMMER THAT MELTED EVERYTHING, a novel set in small-town Ohio during the sizzling hot summer of 1984. When a successful prosecuting attorney begins to believe that neither his profession nor his religious faith will bring justice to victims of evil, he places an ad in the local newspaper inviting the devil to town. Soon a self-proclaimed devil does appear in the form of a young, poor black boy whose very presence exposes citizens’ deepest fears, disrupting the town’s bucolic tranquility. THE SUMMER THAT MELTED EVERYTHING is a gothic treasure, so original and masterfully written that you will wish that the long, hot summer would never end.
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316261333
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Back Bay Books - February 21st, 2017
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 -- 7 PM
Our first book club selection is Adam Haslett’s IMAGINE ME GONE, a 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction finalist. Haslett’s novel is the story of an everyday American family and its singular journey traversing the joys and sorrows, successes and disappointments that life throws its way. Haslett uses multiple narrators to color the narrative and bring to focus the quiet but profound repercussions of mental illness.
$15.95
ISBN: 9780307950734
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - April 22nd, 2014
Wednesday, November 7 -- 7PM
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, NPR Great Reads, and Onion A.V. Club Best Book of 2013
Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow’s home, she meets--and falls in love with--a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
Interabang Event Info
Unless otherwise stated, all events are at Interabang Books.
Books to-be-signed must be bought directly from us.
You can reserve a book online up to 24 hours before the signing.
Call us at 214.484.4289 to reserve books on the day of the signing.
If you can’t attend the event, we can still have your book signed!
Please call us at 214.484.4289 to order a signed book.