Book Club Station South, Wednesday 18th of November, 7-8.15. Before I Forget
Anne Pauly
Come and join us for Jot Book Club at Station South, Levenshulme.
Meet and talk with other readers in an informal, loosely structured setting about your impressions, feelings, interpretations, associations, pleasures and pains of reading our chosen book.
Everyone welcome!
Our March Book Club will be reading 'Before I Forget', by Anne Pauly (Peirene, 2026).
Purchase of the book here will secure you a place in the club on a first come first served basis.
PLEASE NOTE:
You can choose to have your book home delivered at the usual rate of postage or to be picked up for free at our Station South pop-up shop on the following days ONLY:
- Sunday 11th October 10.30-4.30pm
- Sunday 25th October 10.30-4.30pm
- Sunday 8th November 10.30-4.30pm
About the book:
When Anne’s father dies, she is left grieving a contradiction. Jean-Pierre was a man of many faces: the self-taught philosopher born into poverty; the Buddhist who marked favourite haikus with maple leaves; the old romantic who ends every evening kissing a pixelated portrait of his late wife; and the violent bully, whose alcoholism marks his family’s life in terrible ways. Sorting through his belongings and making funeral preparations, Anne tries to come to terms with who and what she’s lost.
Told with a quick wit and deep tenderness, Before I Forget is a tragicomic portrait of loss and a novel for anyone who’s ever loved a so-called monster.
Translated from the French by Dina Leifer