Griffin Bay Book Club will meet Friday night, March 26, at 7:00 pm in the cafe to discuss Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor, a wildly popular novel that has sold more than 2.5 million copies in Japan. This is Ogawa's first novel to be translated into English and it is a gem. It is the story of the beautiful and strange relationship that develops between a brilliant professor of mathematics whose damaged brain leaves him with just 80 minutes of short-term memory and his young housekeeper and her son. This is a calm, unhurried, and poignant story about budding friendship and the creation of family where non existed before. Yoko Ogawa writes with precision and lucidity, with tender regard for the three characters who are brought together by chance to discover and nourish unlikely bonds of affection and family.