The Community Bookstore’s Modernist Book Club continues even though Josh, its beloved leader (and one of the Park Slope 100) has moved on to greener pastures (or something). Yesterday’s email said:

Cool off with The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West in the
air conditioned comfort of The Community Bookstore this Wednesday, July
23rd at 7:30 p.m. The Modernist Book Club resumes its monthly meetings
with this tale of the Aubrey family and poltergeists, murder, and
adventure. Modernist summer madness! Join us!

On July 23rd they’re discussing The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West. They suggest that you come to the meeting with a passage, page or a particular that you find worthy of discussion. Here’s a synopsis of the book from the New York Review of Books website:

"The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by
their father’s genius for instability, but his new job in the London
suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the
threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to
keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung
eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through
whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen. Still, living on
the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who
encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come
to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare."