Books & Brunch will discuss 'The Shadow King' at Dec. 19 virtual meeting at noon

Books & Brunch will meet via Zoom at noon on Saturday, Dec. 19, to discuss The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste.

This novel, short-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize, is set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, taking the reader back to the first conflict of WWII. 

Book cover of The Shadow King

To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected]. Those people who RSVP should expect to receive the Zoom invitation at 9 a.m. Saturday. 

For those who wish to get a head start on their reading, the group will read Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin at the meeting scheduled for noon Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021.