BS Book club will meet on Sunday March 9 at 3:00 PM at the home of Susan Meyers to discuss the book “The familiar” by Leigh Bardugo.
In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, a lowly kitchen scullion hides a gift for little miracles.
All are welcome to attend the book club in person or on zoom. Please contact Sharon Karp at skarp@iu.edu if you have any questions.
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What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor.
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.