June Book: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

Join us in June for "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". An epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents, the novel takes in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family. Through its main character, it also references classic forebears of the crime thriller genre while its style mixes aspects of the sub-genres. There are references to Astrid Lindgren, Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, as well as Sue Grafton, Val McDermid, Elizabeth George, Sara Paretsky, and several other key authors of detective novels. A journalist and magazine editor in Stockholm until his death, Larsson reveals a knowledge and enjoyment of both English and American crime fiction. He declared that he wrote his opus for his own pleasure in the evenings after work.^[1]

May book: Unaccustomed Earth

Join us for the third Lahiri book of the NMBG. She now reaches only a few other authors whose work has ben enjoyed more than twice. Can you name them?

Bengali families struggling to deal with identity and life in the US
From the files of "women we love"