A Closer Look Book Club meets for an hour-long conversation about Open City by Teju Cole. This is the story of a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City five years after 9/11. “A complicated portrait of a narrator whose silences speak as loudly as his words—all articulated in an effortlessly elegant prose…Teju Cole has achieved, in this book, a rare balance. He captures life’s urgent banality, and he captures, too, the ways in which the greater subjects glimmer darkly in the interstices.” Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books. It won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.

To participate in a Book Club conversation, just read the book and join us at the Poetry Center in Room 207. No sign-up is necessary. The Club is free and open to the public, and you’re welcome to participate in as many or as few meetings as you like.