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Smithfield Critics Book Discussion Group

Sep 20, 2017 - Sep 20, 2017 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- Downtown
612 Smithfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

The Smithfield Critics meet at 12:00 pm on the third Wednesday of each month. This month’s selection is: "The Dinner: A Novel" by Herman Koch.

It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act, an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.

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