VISITATION STREET ! ! !

With a winning number of 40 votes!
84 members voted so I fully expect a hopping discussion!

Here's an excerpt:
Visitation Street, by Ivy Pochoda
320 pgs

Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay. But on the water during the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val survives, washing ashore in the weeds, bruised and unconscious.

This shocking event echoes through the lives of Red Hook's diverse residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop is a place to share neighborhood news, and he trolls for information about June's disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect in the investigation, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe. Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she's buried deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Juilliard dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.

In Visitation Street, Ivy Pochoda combines intensely vivid prose with breathtaking psychological insight to explore a cast of solitary souls, pulled by family, love, betrayal, and hope, who yearn for a chance to break free.
http://amzn.com/0062249894

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Even if you did not get a chance to vote you are more than welcome to join us for October!

Does everyone think we should have discussions, weekly or biweekly or monthly?
I am thinking I will open up each discussion with a question. It's only meant to spur the discussion so feel free to discuss other relative points.

Should we do one discussion thread per book or per discussion question?

Thoughts?

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ETA: OK, here's what we're thinking:
Weekly discussions on Monday in a separate thread starting the 2nd week of the month.
We will link to previous week's discussion in each thread.
Each discussion will be headlined by a "question".
There will be a different book club leader each month. S/he will be responsible for picking 3-4 books to open up to a vote mid month.
I think @Running Elley: is up for November. Anyone want to grab December?

Any input/alterations?

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Volunteer to lead a month here:
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-volunteer-to-lead-a-month