Book Club #7: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis, with the author!
Thu, May 14
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David Bezmozgis, the author, will be joining us for an in depth exploration of his novel. Join us for what is sure to be a wonderful re-cap and lively discussion! https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84807340034?pwd=S14KlaXfwqbIjEVT3MIA1a9pznCBqJ.1
Time & Location
May 14, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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A disgraced Israeli politician comes face to face with the man who denounced him to the KGB and sent him to the Gulag.
These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier.
In a mere twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own ethical dilemmas in the Israeli army, and the wife who stood by…