Each month, we get together in the private event space of Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill and discuss that month's book choice - a mix of fiction & non-fiction, with selections curated by our booksellers and chosen by the group.

October's pick is Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella Cassandra at the Wedding. Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve.

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