Book Clubs

Book Club: Mission Bay Reads

The Door and Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo
Wednesday, 5/29/2024
6:30 - 7:30
Mission Bay Program Room
Mission Bay

960 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

415-355-2838

The Mission Bay Book Club selections for May are two short novels by author Magda Szabo.

Feel free to read one or both of the books.

The Door is a stylishly told tale which recounts a strange relationship built up over 20 years between a writer and her housekeeper.

After an unpromising and caustic start benign feelings develop and ultimately the writer benefits from what becomes an inseparable relationship.

Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known.

It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime. 

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