The Newark Public Library LGBTQ+ Resource Center presents a monthly book discussion group, where all backgrounds and identities are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Join us at the Main Library, LGBTQ+ Resource Center, November 21st from 6PM - 8PM for a group discussion of Permafrost by Eva Baltasar.

Permafrost’s no-BS lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, ‘because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like’; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the color green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be found: love affairs, travel, thoughts of suicide.

Full of powerful, physical imagery, this prize-winning debut novel by acclaimed Catalan poet Eva Baltasar was a word-of-mouth hit in its own language. It is a breathtakingly forthright call for women’s freedom to embrace both pleasure and solitude, and speaks boldly of the body, of sex, and of the self.

Registration is required and linked below. Free copies of the book are available and will be provided upon request*.

*Please note that free copies of the book are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.