Remote Book Club: Where The Wild Ladies Are

The Camaraderie NYC book club is your go-to for uplifting, fun and inspiring reads, thoughtful conversation and kick ass lady friends! This month we join each other online, over a glass of wine or cup of tea, of course.

This month's read is:

Where The Wild Ladies Are

By Aoko Matsuda

Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japan’s most exciting writers.

All of the stories in Matsuda's collection are based, loosely, on traditional Japanese stories of yōkai, ghosts and monsters that figure prominently in the country's folklore. But Matsuda puts her own clever spin on them, and each of her stories feels original and contemporary.

Where the Wild Ladies Are would make for great Halloween reading, although these aren't the same old horror stories you've encountered before — they're novel, shimmering masterworks from a writer who seems incapable of being anything less than original. Towards the end of the book, one of Matsuda's characters observes of her friends with dedicated fixations, "Somewhere inside, these people are all quietly on fire." Matsuda's book is on fire, too, but there's nothing quiet about her maverick brilliance.

Open to all women, everywhere.

Attendees will be sent specific instructions to join our video call before the event. 

Advanced registration required.