ReadWriteRepeat:
A Book Club for Writers
read to learn craft
Currently on hiatus.
Quarterly sessions where we reverse engineer books as a group to uncover the secrets of crafting an exceptional story! Most sessions include time at the end with the book’s author.
Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.
Virginia Woolf
Thursday August 22, 2024
7pm ET (USA)
Adult Historical Fiction
A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice.
Gabriella Saab graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor of business administration in marketing and now lives in her hometown of Mobile, Alabama, where she works as a barre instructor. While researching The Last Checkmate, she traveled to Warsaw and Auschwitz to dig deeper into the setting and the experiences of those who lived there. The Last Checkmate is her first novel.
All I had was rain, and I didn’t know if the sunshine would ever return. So I’d find blessings amid the thunder and lightning.
The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab