Apex October Book Club

Welcome to our October Book Club! We will be reading “Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows” by Balli Kaur Jaswal!
The Apex Book Club will meet on Sunday, October 26 at 12:30pm at Apex Brewery in Monroe, NY. Invite friends and family to join us as we discuss everything while sipping on some drinks. We would love your company whether or not you finish the book!
Please make every effort to be as on time as possible so we can get in as much discussion as we can. Often, we can’t stop talking about our books!
We give 10 minutes of grace for traffic and to get settled in with a beer 🙃 We look forward to seeing you!
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Summary: Every woman has a secret life . . .
Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a “creative writing” course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community.
Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected—and exciting—kind.
As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community’s “moral police.” But when the widows’ gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife—a modern woman like Nikki—and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all.