Join us for Book Club at Bedford Books on Tuesday February 10 at 6:30pm to discuss Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver. There will be lively discussion, questions posed and answered and time to connect with fellow YS Members.

This is a zero pressure book club – didn’t quite finish the book? Come anyway.

Hosted by Fran Hauser & Emily Winograd Leonard

Light refreshments will be available.

Member RSVP required.

This book is available for purchase at Bedford Books! You can also purchase the book on the Bedford Books website here and have it shipped to you.

About the Book

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism

There’s the nightmarish “The Closet on the Top Floor” in which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly integrated college, starts to physically disappear; “Mint Juleps not Served Here” where a couple living deep in a forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him; “Spiders Cry without Tears,” in which a couple, Meg and Walt, are confronted by prejudices and strains of interracial and extramarital love; and the high tension titular story that follows a nervous older sister the night before her little brother is set to desegregate his school.

About the Author

Diane A. Oliver was an American short fiction writer who passed away in 1966 at age 22. She published four short stories in her lifetime and a further ten posthumously, eight of those only seeing print nearly 58 years after her death.