Offbeat Book Club at STARFest

This meeting is Offbeat Book Club’s annual visit to St. Albert Readers Festival!

Registration guarantees a spot at the pre-event book discussion and dinner at 5:00 PM (more details in October). 

After dinner, the club will attend Jen Sookfong Lee’s STARFest appearance at the Downtown Library, where she will discuss The Hunger We Pass Down.

Please note: STARFest event tickets can be purchased separately here.

Copies of The Hunger We Pass Down are available to borrow through the library's circulating collection after September 9th.

The Offbeat Book Club is a book discussion group for 20-40 somethings. Meetings take place seasonally at the Downtown Library. Register to reserve your spot in the meeting.

STARFest selection: The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee

Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online cloth diaper shop, her resentful teenage daughter Luna, and her screen-obsessed son Luca, Alice can never get everything done in a day. It’s all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night. It’s a relief when Alice wakes up one morning and everything has been done. The counters are clear, the kids’ rooms are tidy, orders are neatly packed and labeled. But no one confesses they’ve helped, and Alice doesn’t remember staying up late. Someone–or something–has been doing her chores for her.
Alice should be uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who begins to share their haunted family history from Alice’s great-grandmother, a comfort woman during WWII, through to Alice herself. But the family demons, both real and subconscious, are about to become impossible to ignore.