Book Club

Date

May 8th, 2024

Time

6:00 pm

Location

Throwback Brewery

Our next Book Club meeting will be May 8th at 6pm. We’ll be reading Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn.

As for the past few meetings, we’ll cap attendance around ~16 in order to make for a nice discussion size. If there end up being a lot of people that want to attend, we can divide the group in two.

Here’s a bit more about the book:

WINNER OF THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society

Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn’t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege. In the meantime, birth control is mandatory.

Enid of Haven is an Investigator, called on to mediate disputes and examine transgressions against the community. She’s young for the job and hasn’t yet handled a serious case. Now, though, a suspicious death requires her attention. The victim was an outcast, but might someone have taken dislike a step further and murdered him?

In a world defined by the disasters that happened a century before, the past is always present. But this investigation may reveal the cracks in Enid’s world and make her question what she really stands for.

As always, if you want off of this book club email, please just let me know!

A few things to note, if you are interested in book club.

1- We usually cap these meetings at 16 people or so, please shoot us an email if you’d like to attend.

2- We also have a Throwback Brewery Book Club email distribution list. We email everyone on the list 2x a month – once to let everyone know what the next book and book club date is, and once again (a week before the meeting) to get a headcount of who plans on attending. If that sounds like something you are interested in, email us to add you to our distribution list!