The Evening Book Club will discuss My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir, by Meir Shalev, Memoir, 224 pages, facilitated by Sara Ghitis. RSVP required for in-person attendance. Limited ZOOM is available.

A charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family’s biggest enemy in their new land: dirt.