Join us on the last Friday of each month for our Wine & Words Book Club!

Each month we will be reading a translated title selected by our store buyer and world-traveler, Jenna, accompanied by wine sourced from the book's country of origin and hand-picked by our cafe lead and resident cork-dork, Gretchen!

This month's club will feature the book Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli. Our wine pairing will be sourced from Italy - details to come!

About the Book:

"June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room, confused and surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to him: a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted irreparable damage to him and his family... To his horror, Daniele learns from the doctors that he's been sentenced to a week of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward. Writing with lucid realism and stunning emotional force, and drawing from the author's own personal experience of mental illness, Mencarelli chronicles Daniele's seven days in the hospital as he struggles to find a way out of the darkness. Daniele finds unexpected companions in his fellow patients--men who, like him, have felt the full brunt of life's pain. Together they will realize the hidden strength and value of their common fragility and of the boundless empathy they feel towards others"

Daniele Mencarelli is a poet and author. Born in Rome in 1974, he now lives in Ariccia, Italy. He is a regular contributor to several Italian newspapers and magazines. Everything Calls for Salvation, his second novel, won the 2020 Youth Strega Prize.