Next MOCA Book Club Selection: Monster in the Middle

MOCA Book Club is back with a new selection! Join us as we read Tiphanie Yanique's Monster In The Middle. In this novel, characters from the U.S. and the Caribbean explore desire and identity, religion and class, passion and obligation. Get ready to read with us, and join us for our next discussion meeting.

Have you joined our MOCA Book Club yet? Register here. It’s free and you can join from anywhere in the world. 

This book club selection is inspired by our fall exhibition Andrea Chung: Between Too Late and Too Early. Learn more about the exhibition here.

MOCA Book Club members can purchase the book at a 20% discount through our partners at Books & Books using the code: MOCABC24

You can also check out the book and audiobook at North Miami Public Library or your local library for free. (Subject to availability)

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He's a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She’s a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean, looking for lasting love. But are they meant to be? The answer goes back decades—all the way to their parents' earliest loves.

Vibrant and emotionally riveting, Monster in the Middle moves across decades, from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, to show how one couple's romance is intrinsically influenced by the family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing. What challenges and traumas must this new couple inherit, what hopes and ambitions will keep them moving forward? Exploring desire and identity, religion and class, passion and obligation, the novel posits that in order to answer the question “who are we meant to be with?” we must first understand who we are and how we came to be.

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