Sisterhood Book Club

At our next book club, taking place in person on Monday, July 26th at 1:00 p.m., we will be discussing the book "Exile Music" by Jennifer Steil.

For more information, please contact Helene Barghebuhr at cyberbarge1@me.com.  

Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia  As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family's identity, Orly spends her days…