Queer Book Club: Giovanni’s Room
Queer Book Club is a small but enthusiastic community that has been meeting monthly to discuss queer-themed books spanning numerous genres. This month, we’ll be reading Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin:
“Baldwin’s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.”
This class is presented in partnership with DC Public Library.
Location
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library
1630 Seventh St. NW
Washington,
DC
20001
Neighborhood: Shaw
Past event