The Hare with Amber Eyes

The Book Club meets monthly over drinks, and everybody is welcome to attend, whether they've had the chance to read the book or not.

From www.amazon.com, which selected The Hare with Amber Eyes as a 'Book of the Month' in September 2010:

"At the heart of Edmund de Waal's strange and graceful family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, is a one-of-a-kind inherited collection of ornamental Japanese carvings known as netsuke. The netsuke are tiny and tactile--they sit in the palm of your hand--and de Waal is drawn to them as "small, tough explosions of exactitude." He's also drawn to the story behind them, and for years he put aside his own work as a world-renowned potter and curator to uncover the rich and tragic family history of which the carvings are one of the few concrete legacies."