Monday Night Book Club In-Person
Our Monday Night Book Club will discuss The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy.
It is the summer of 2015, and Lila De is on the verge of a breakthrough in her career at a prestigious New York publishing house. But when she gets a call from her mother in India, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate, she must confront the legacy of an extended family that she thought she left behind sixteen years ago.
Returning to Kolkata reunites Lila with her mother after a decade of estrangement, and there are her grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all of whom still live in the house and resent her sudden inheritance. To make matters more complicated, her first boyfriend seeks her out when she arrives, and her star author—and occasional lover—is suddenly determined to make things serious.
As Lila tries to come to terms with both past and present, long-suppressed secrets from her family emerge, culminating in an act of shocking violence, and she must finally reckon with her inherited custom of keeping everything under the surface.
- Date:
- Monday, May 18, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Simpson - Tutor Rooms 1 & 2
- Audience:
- Ages 19 and up / Adults
- Categories:
- Book Clubs
Questions? Email Joelene or call 766-0171.