Literary Book Club

This month Tess and the Literary Book Club will be reading Brawler by Lauren Groff. This book is a fierce, celebrated collection of nine stories — Groff’s first since the award-winning Florida. Ranging from the 1950s to the present and moving across age, class, and region, these stories reflect a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels. Characters include a hot-tempered teenage swimmer, a woman responsible for a disabled sibling, and a mother blinded by loss. Precise, surprising, and profound.