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    • October 01, 2024
    • April 30, 2025
    • Temple Israel of Greater Miami, 137 NE 19th St, Miami, FL 33132

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    Noon on Wednesday, October 16 

    RICHARD POWERS

    Playground

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    Noon on Thursday, November 14 

    ANDRE ACIMAN

    Roman Year

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    Noon on Wednesday, December 11 

    SUSAN MINOT

    Don't Be a Stranger

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    As of 9/18/2024

    • October 16, 2024
    • 12:00 PM
    • Temple Israel - Wolfson Auditorium, 137 NE 19 Street Miami FL 33132
    • 173
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    About Richard

    Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.




    About the Book

    A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment

    Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

    They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

    Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.


    Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

    Photo credit: Dean D. Dixon


    About the Luncheon

    • Books: Registrants will pick up their books at the luncheon.
    • Guests: Non-members are welcome to attend up to two luncheons per season. Members may bring with them an unlimited number of non-member guests, as long as the guests, individually, abide by the above Non-member Guest policy.
    • Registration: Pre-registration is required. 
    • Payment: Pre-payment is required.
    • Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be allowed for cancellations received after registration closes, and no-shows.

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Past events

May 28, 2024 Lunch with Kevin Kwan, "Lies and Weddings"
April 15, 2024 Lunch with Percival Everett, "James"
April 06, 2024 Lunch with Amor Towles, "Table for Two"
March 07, 2024 Lunch with Andre Dubus III, "Ghost Dogs"
February 08, 2024 Lunch with Ayana Mathis, "The Unsettled"
January 29, 2024 Lunch with Alex Michaelides, "The Fury"
December 11, 2023 Lunch with Sigrid Nunez, "The Vulnerables"
November 20, 2023 Lunch with Michael Cunningham, "Day"
November 15, 2023 Young Professionals: Sip 'N Swap @ Miami Book Fair
November 03, 2023 BLS + WIC at PAMM: Joan Didion Exhibit
October 03, 2023 Lunch with Lauren Groff, "The Vaster Wilds"
September 22, 2023 Nathan Hill at Books & Books
August 10, 2023 Young Professionals: Sip 'N Swap (Raw Figs)
May 15, 2023 Lunch with Dr. Abraham Verghese, "The Covenant of Water"
April 27, 2023 Lunch with Leila Mottley, "Nightcrawling"
April 20, 2023 Young Professionals: Sip 'N Swap (PAMM)
March 16, 2023 Lunch with Hernan Diaz, "Trust"
February 23, 2023 Young Professionals: Sip 'N Swap (Ruka Winewood)
February 16, 2023 Lunch with Oscar Hokeah, "Calling for a Blanket Dance"
January 18, 2023 Lunch with Emma Straub, "This Time Tomorrow"
December 08, 2022 Lunch with Gabrielle Zevin, "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow"
November 10, 2022 Lunch with Anthony Marra, "Mercury Pictures Presents"
October 26, 2022 Lunch with Dani Shapiro, "Signal Fires"
September 19, 2022 Lunch with Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You"
April 25, 2022 Lunch with Douglas Stuart
April 12, 2022 Lunch with Diana Abu-Jaber
March 29, 2022 Lunch with Gish Jen
March 21, 2022 Lunch with Reyna Grande
February 11, 2022 BERNARDINE EVARISTO "Manifesto"
December 10, 2021 NEEL PATEL "Tell Me How to Be"
November 10, 2021 GARY SHTEYNGART "Our Country Friends"
October 27, 2021 COLM TOIBIN "The Magician"
September 23, 2021 LAUREN GROFF "Matrix"
January 01, 2021 Spring 2021 Events (January through May)
August 01, 2020 Fall 2020 Events (September through December)
April 27, 2020 *CANCELED* Lunch with Julia Alvarez
March 18, 2020 *CANCELED* Lunch with James McBride
February 10, 2020 Lunch with Julia Phillips
February 10, 2020 (Canceled) Lunch with Jeanine Cummins
January 16, 2020 Lunch with Jaquira Diaz
December 18, 2019 Lunch with Mamta Chaudhry
November 22, 2019 Lunch with Richard Russo
October 18, 2019 Lunch with Jeanette Winterson
September 26, 2019 Lunch with Salman Rushdie
May 02, 2019 Lunch with John Burnham Schwartz
March 21, 2019 Lunch with Elliot Ackerman
February 14, 2019 Lunch with Madeline Miller
January 18, 2019 Lunch with Min Jin Lee
December 18, 2018 Lunch with Sloane Crosley
November 13, 2018 Lunch with Tayari Jones
October 31, 2018 Lunch with Alexander Chee
September 26, 2018 Lunch with Gary Shteyngart
April 25, 2018 Lunch with Aminatta Forna
April 25, 2018 CANCELED | Lunch with Martha Grimes
March 22, 2018 CANCELED | Lunch with Ayad Akhtar
March 07, 2018 A Conversation About Books & Film with Mitchell Kaplan & Dennis Scholl
February 16, 2018 Lunch with Amor Towles
January 18, 2018 Lunch with Dani Shapiro
December 14, 2017 Lunch with Kevin Young
November 16, 2017 Lunch with Edwidge Danticat
October 26, 2017 Lunch with Andre Aciman
September 27, 2017 Lunch with Alice McDermott
April 19, 2017 Lunch with David Rieff
March 16, 2017 Lunch with Chitra Divakaruni
February 16, 2017 Lunch with Maureen Corrigan
January 19, 2017 Lunch with Aaron Thier
December 12, 2016 Lunch with Michael Chabon
November 04, 2016 Lunch with Alexander Maksik
October 21, 2016 Lunch with Patricia Engel
September 15, 2016 Lunch with Jonathan Safran Foer


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