If you want to join New York City first lady Chirlane McCray's first book club discussion next month, you'll have to act fast.
City residents will have just three days — Monday, May 2 at noon until Wednesday, May 4 at 5 p.m. — to try and score a free ticket, the mayor's office announced on Thursday.
Event admission is limited to 100 guests only.
Participants 18 and older can enter online to win a ticket for the event, which will be held inside Gracie Mansion at 6 p.m. on May 17.
McCray, author James Hannaham, PIX11 anchor Sukanya Krishnan and author Tanwi Nandini Islam will discuss Islam's book "Bright Lines," which the Denver Post described as a "Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh 'Royal Tenenbaums.'"
For those who do not attend, the event will be streamed live on McCray's Youtube channel and the discussion can be followed on social media with the hashtag #GracieBookClub.
There will be five more opportunities this year to personally join the discussion — the club will select five other books, which will be announced later, that fit into this season's theme of the city's diverse and rich immigrant community, according to the mayor's office.
McCray came up with the idea in collaboration with the Gracie Mansion Conservatory and one of its members, Pulitzer-prize winning author Tracy K. Smith, according to a spokeswoman for the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, a nonprofit chaired by McCray.
