{"id":562,"date":"2022-07-31T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=562"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:49:08","slug":"book-club","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/event\/book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Book selection, <strong><strong><strong><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><em>Open, Heaven<\/em>,&#8221; by Se\u00e1n Hewitt <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span data-huuid=\"7701264876736677826\">Open, Heaven is Se\u00e1n Hewitt&#8217;s debut novel, a lyrical coming of age story about two teenage boys, James and Luke, exploring first love and desire in a remote English village in the early 2000s. <\/span><span data-huuid=\"7701264876736677427\">The novel follows the sheltered James as he meets the charismatic but troubled Luke, and their intense, transformative relationship unfolds over the course of a year, exploring themes of sexuality, memory, and the conflict between personal longing and community expectations.\u00a0<\/span><span data-huuid=\"7701264876736677028\">It has been praised for its poetic prose and poignant depiction of queer adolescence.<span class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"18c86f5e-35c9-4498-a790-77b905a9db3b\"><span class=\"UV3uM\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Our group will meet at Anthony&#8217;s home in Rodger&#8217;s Forge in Towson. Note the new time of 7:00 p.m. to meet. Contact event leader Paige at &#8220;bookclub at ptbalto dot org&#8221; for information.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@eddrobertson?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Ed Robertson<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/assorted-title-book-lot-eeSdJfLfx1A?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book selection, &#8220;Open, Heaven,&#8221; by Se\u00e1n Hewitt Open, Heaven is Se\u00e1n Hewitt&#8217;s debut novel, a lyrical coming of age story about two teenage boys, James and Luke, exploring first love and desire in a remote&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1620,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-562","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/562\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/baltimore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}