ASU Book Group: ‘Invitation to a Bonfire’ by Adrienne Celt

The ASU Book Group's February 2020 reading selection is "Invitation to a Bonfire" by Adrienne Celt. The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly from noon to 1 p.m. in the Piper Writers House on ASU's Tempe campus. Haven't read the book? Come anyway! Authors are always present. A no-host luncheon follows at the University Club. 

Synopsis:

The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies.

The book is available from amazon.com.

Adrienne Celt is an alum of the creative writing program at ASU, where she earned her MFA in 2012.

The ASU Book Group meetings and selections for 2019–2020 are:

• Sep. 18 – Rebecca Fish Ewan, “By the Forces of Gravity”
• Oct. 23 – Keith Miller and Renee Billups Baker, “My Life with Charles Billups and Martin Luther King”
• Nov. 20 – Eduardo Obregón Pagán, “Valley of the Guns”
• Dec. 11 – Shahla Talebi, “Ghosts of Revolution” (new date)
• Jan. 29 – Gary L. Stuart, “Call Him Mac” (new date)
• Feb. 26 – Adrienne Celt, “Invitation to a Bonfire”
• Mar. 25 – Joey Eschrich and Clark A. Miller, “The Weight of Light”
• Apr. 29 – Kelly deVos, “Fat Girl on a Plane”

The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative by the Department of English and organized in partnership with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.