Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back.
But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her. Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great.
Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. You don’t even have to have had read the book. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. Contemplative and mesmerizing, Recollections of My Nonexistence thoughtfully charts the famous essayist’s coming of age as a thinker, activist, and writer. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event.
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