Join the Franklin LGBTQ Alliance for our monthly book club. This month, we will be reading Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai. It is set in 1920s’s Sri Lanka, and centers around Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher and early feminist, who finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life, and her uncle, Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past in England. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran’s powerful father, and threatens everything on which Balendran has built his present life.