Book club meeting to discuss Seven Empty Houses, a National Book Award-winning story collection by Samanta Schweblin.
BookPeople hosts the next Happy Hour Book Club on Thursday, October 15, at 6 PM, and this time the group is gathering around Seven Empty Houses, the National Book Award-winning story collection by Samanta Schweblin. The Happy Hour format is straightforward: each session focuses on a single title, and this one belongs to Schweblin.
Seven Empty Houses is translated into English by Megan McDowell. The collection is a conversation on memory, missing persons, and unmoored rooms—the kind of territory Schweblin is known for, where the familiar starts to feel a little off. If you've read her before, you know she likes to pull the rug out from under you; if this is your first time, it's a good place to start. The National Book Award nod gives you a sense of where it sits, but the actual reading is what matters here.
That's the whole point of the club: you bring your own take on the book and talk it through with other readers. It's less of a lecture and more of a group discussion, so you don't need to be an expert or have a polished thesis ready to go. Just read the stories and come ready to talk about what you saw in them.
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It's free to attend, and it all happens at BookPeople in Austin. The meeting starts at 6 PM on Thursday, October 15, so you can head over after work and spend the evening talking through Seven Empty Houses.
