Saturday, Feb 13, 2pm at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, 2351 Veterans Road West, SINY 10309.  Take 440 South to Exit 3, Woodrow Ave.  Follow the signs to Clay Pit Park State Preserve Visitors Center:  https://www.google.com/maps/place/2351+Veterans+Rd+W,+Staten+Island,+NY+10309/@40.5381985,-74.2273061,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c3b5316b7bcf0d:0x7309a9de1afef293

In the beautiful wintry woodland of Clay Pit Ponds Park, we’ll gather inside the Interpretive Center to read Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk’s novel, Snow.  It is a stunning story, set in modern Turkey.  A rash of suicides has been reported among young women in rural villages, and a journalist sets out from Germany to return to his home and learn what caused those young women to take their lives.  As he arrives, a blinding snow storm settles upon the village to cut it off from the outside world.  He meets revolutionaries, fundamentalists, witnesses a murder, is taken into police custody, and reunites with a woman he has loved from afar for years.

What is the mystery that he uncovers?  What finally happens to him?

After our reading concludes, weather permitting, the friendly park rangers will lead us on a walk through the woods.