Book Club
Thu 21 Aug
|Coffee Hanyakbang
Join us to discuss A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet. Set in the future, the novel focuses on a group of children spending the summer at a lakeside rental. While their parents cope mostly by anesthetizing themselves with booze and adultery, the kids get to work on survival.
Time & Location
21 Aug 2025, 12:00 – 14:00
Coffee Hanyakbang, 16-6 Samil-daero 12-gil, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea
About the event
Join us to discuss Lydia Millet’s book A Children’s Bible. We will meet up for coffee and baked goodies on Thursday, Aug 21 at the famous historic Coffee Hanyakbang,
This National Book Award finalist weaves a story so compelling that you won’t want to look away. Set in the alarmingly near future, the novel focuses on a gaggle of children spending the summer at a multi-family lakeside rental mansion that is soon besotted by a storm straight out of the Old Testament. While their parents “cope” mostly by anesthetizing themselves with booze, adultery, and all-too-familiar excuses for their collective inaction, their hilariously precocious children roll their eyes, take inventory of their supplies, and get to the belated work of survival. Damning without ever feeling scolding, this book will make you see our planet, and the generations who will inherit it, with fresh eyes and renewed energy.
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