Matthew Thomas reads from his debut novel, “We Are Not Ourselves,” a sprawling, decades-long arc of a marriage and history of a family following the American dream. Last year, the book made it onto multiple year-end lists, including The New York Times’s list of notable books for 2015. At 8 p.m., National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, at Irving Place, 212-475-3424, nationalartsclub.org; free.