Our Romantic & Ruinous book club is alive and flourishing into May! These monthly meetings continue as a space to read closely, think together, and return to books that hold complexity around love, identity, and desire. These are conversations that move between the personal and the political, the intimate and the structural.

This month‘s book: You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

A novel of queer longing, displacement, and the relentless search for self. Told in sharp, shifting vignettes between the US and the Middle East, the novel follows a young woman coming into adulthood whose desires are shaped as much by repression as by hunger.