The book for is November is American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. If you haven’t read the book, you’re welcome to attend and get a copy of the following month’s selection. Co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood’s Women’s Advisory Board. There’s free parking with validation in the five-story parking structure.

Summary provided by the publisher:

It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she’s given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes.