Book Club
C Pam Zhang Book Club: In-Person
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm PST
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm PST
At Charlie’s Queer Books
for C Pam Zhang
Cost: $150-$250
Description
Join us for a SAL Book Club leading up to our Literary Arts Series event with C Pam Zhang!
Whether you’re already a fan or brand new to C Pam Zhang’s delectable writing, join other readers for two guided book club discussions of Land of Milk and Honey, led by Seattle writer and teaching artist Amy Hirayama, then meet up for the SAL event.
Book club packages include:
- A copy of Land of Milk and Honey shipped to your door.
- Two facilitated book club meetings held at Charlie’s Queer Books on April 2 and April 23 at 7:00 p.m.
- One in-person ticket to Zhang’s Seattle Arts & Lectures event on May 8, 2025, at Town Hall Seattle.
Event Details
Charlie’s Queer Books
465 N 36th St
Seattle, WA 98103
Know Before You Go
What to Expect
Charlie’s Queer Books will send you a copy of Land of Milk and Honey to the address on your ticket order one month prior to your first book club discussion.
Meet Amy Hirayama and other readers at Charlie’s Queer Books on Wednesday, April 2 and Wednesday, April 23, from 7 – 8:30 p.m. for guided discussions.
Attend the Seattle Arts & Lectures event on May 8 to enjoy additional insights from C Pam Zhang’s lecture and Q&A.
About The Book
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.
About the Author
C Pam Zhang is the author of two bestselling novels, How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, a Booker Prize nominee, and the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. She has been a finalist for awards from PEN America, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Center for Fiction. Zhang’s writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
Transportation & Parking
Charlie’s Queer Books is located in the Fremont neighborhood. Street parking and metered parking is available.
Accessibility
All books and retail space is on the main floor. The second floor with tables and a meeting room is only accessible by stairs. If you want to join any of Charlie’s events and need to stay on the main floor, let Charlie’s know and they’ll bring the party to you! Email them at info@charliesqueerbooks.com to arrange accommodations.
Charlie’s Queer Books has an accessible ramp to get onto the porch and through the front door that is a 4 degree slope and 36″ wide. Their front door is 31″ wide, and while their bathroom interior is large enough for a wheelchair, they don’t have a transfer rail and the door is 26.5″ wide.
Guide and service animals are welcome.
