Mariam Petrosyan’s “The Gray House” was a sensation on the Russian literary scene when it was published and in 2013 the author was included in the documentary “Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin”, hosted by Stephen Fry. The book was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in 2010 and received several awards and nominations, among them the 2009 Russian Prize for the best book in Russian by an author living abroad and 2016 Lire Magazine Award (France).

A weekly breakdown and schedule for Mariam Petrosyan’s “The Gray House”:

BOOK ONE

Oct. 4: Pages 1 through 77

Oct. 11: Pages 78 through 146

Oct. 18: Pages 147 through 217

BOOK TWO

Oct. 25:Pages 219 through 300

Nov. 1: Pages 301 through 382

Nov. 8: Pages 383 through 450

BOOK THREE

Nov. 15: Pages 451 through 521

Nov. 22: Pages 522 through 593

Nov. 29: Pages 594 through 662

Dec. 6: Pages 663 through 721

Breakdown by chapter names (for ebook readers):

BOOK ONE

Oct. 4: Beginning through The Backyard Interlude

Oct. 11: Smoker Of Bats, Dragons, And Basilisk Eggshells through The House Interlude (4th The House Interlude chapter)

Oct. 18: Sphinx Visiting The Sepulcher through the End of Book One

BOOK TWO

Oct. 25: Beginning Book Two through Tabaqui Day The Second

Nov. 1: The Confession Of The Scarlet Dragon through The House Interlude

Nov. 8: A Completely Different Corridor through the End of Book Two

BOOK THREE

Nov. 15: Beginning Book Three through Sphinx (the 2nd Sphinx chapter)

Nov. 22: Red through Smoker (1st Smoker of Book 3)

Nov. 29: Blind through Sphinx (3rd Sphinx chapter)

Dec. 6: Smoker (2nd Smoker chapter of Book 3) through the End of Book Three

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Co-hosts:

Patrick Bronson got his B.A. in Honors English Literature and Western Society & Culture from Concordia University, in Montreal, QC. He is currently co-leader of the Tuesday Literature Group at the Burlington Writer’s Workshop, which started as a small group of readers tackling “Infinite Jest” in the summer of 2013, and was adopted by the BWW as a year-round Lit. group in the summer of 2015. He has also spent time as fiction co-editor and manuscript reader at BWW’s sister publication, the Mud Season Review. He is also the father of a 3-year-old boy, Wallace.

Michael Sevy retired from a career beginning in advertising (including writing and editing for various trade magazines) then working as a database administrator for a financial software company. Composing and playing music from punk rock to ambient and classical minimalism has been a constant throughout.

Michael tries to keep the Lit Group weekly sessions lively with an emphasis on deep analysis of difficult works and explorations of experimental prose and form. Leaning toward long, slow non-narrative fiction in his own reading, favorite authors include László Krasznahorkai, Clarice Lispector, Natsume Sōseki, Marguerite Duras, Robert Musil, and Georges Perec.

Some of Michael’s music can be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLbX7QADown17kutg31yrw.