Our main read this month is Melissa Faliveno's queer Gothic story of mourning and dark inheritance, Hemlock. Our sub-read takes us back to George Saunders's take on the afterlife with his new novel Vigil.

A good novel with mixed reviews from NUBClub. Everyone could see that the book was well written and had a relevant theme about fascism and a changing world, but some people thought it was too obtuse and deliberately difficult for their tastes.

Mixed response from NUBClub to this depiction of a deluded and avoidant man in late middle age. We found some interesting ideas in the narrator's blindness to his own condition and the truth about his family, but everyone felt that some of the secondary characters were way too thin and more needed to be done to show just how mistaken the narrator's perspective was.