The Keepin’ It Real Book Club

Exhausted by the afternoon desk job drowsiness? Books in 140 Seconds, the expresso shot of book clubs, is here to give you a little buzz. Last week we talked about the ripple effect of a gay teen’s death in Suzette Mayr’s (recently giller longlisted!) Monoceros, and this week we’re still talking about struggles with sexuality, in this case a mother’s with her gay son’s, in the incredibly moving and empathetic portrait of motherhood that is Brian Francis’s Natural Order. Have a look:

In some cases the videos are able to contain most of my thoughts or feelings about a book. In this case, I feel like I didn’t do it justice, so I’m really going to try to write a review of this extraordinary book. Other things I hope to share in this space soon: a post on the bookstores of Iceland and a post on my literary pilgrimage through London (and beyond). I do have a book deadline, so we’ll see how this all shakes out . . .

Anyway, next time on Books in 140 Seconds, we move away from motherhood into the land of men with D.W. Wilson’s short story collection of blue collar small town men, [...]