Hello Reader,
La Playa Books currently offers two virtual book clubs, moderated and organized by our new book buyer, Mimi Hannan. One meets the first Monday of the month, in the evening (Wine & Conversation Book Club). The other meets the first Wednesday of the month in the mid-morning (New & Noteworthy Book Club). To find out more and join our bookclub mailing list, plase email Mimi directly at mimi at laplayabooks dot com (or click on the link)
Our Wine & Conversation Book Club meets the first Monday of the month on Zoom.
Our March meeting will be held Monday, March 7th at 6pm.
Please see your book club email before the meeting date for details on how to join in via Zoom. For discussion March 7th: 'The Last Story of Mina Lee' by Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother’s past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother, Mina.
Thirty years earlier, Mina Lee steps off a plane to take a chance on a new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment leads to repercussions for Mina that echo through the decades, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.
Told through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other, The Last Story of Mina Lee is a powerful and exquisitely woven debut novel that explores identity, family, secrets, and what it truly means to belong.
Looking ahead to April's book: 'Legends of the North Cascades' by Jonathan Evison. Both titles are available in the store for 20% off to book club members.
Our New & Noteworthy Book Club meets the first Wednesday of the month on Zoom.
Our March meeting will be held Wednesday, March 2nd at 11am.
Please see your book club email before the meeting date for details on how to join in via Zoom. For discussion March 2nd: 'The Violin Conspiracy' by Brendan Slocumb.
This title now available in the store for 20% off to book club members.
If you're interested in titles our book clubs have read over the past few years, please visit our special Book Club Reading List for a list of titles. For more information, please email us at info@laplayabooks.com
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter
“A beautifully rendered and cinematic portrait of a place and its evolution through time . . .
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.