Monthly book club exploring race, sexuality and gender in Fantasy and Sci-fi settings. This is a public book club that’s open to allies. This month’s choice is:
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The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
WINNER OF THE 2016 HUGO: BEST NOVEL

This is the way the world ends. Again.

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman’s vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She’ll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.
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Support Local! If you order your copy through Elliott Bay Book Company, they will offer you 20% off for being in our club.
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[IMPORTANT] If you can’t afford this book, private message me and I will try to provide you with a physical or digital copy. Especially if you are QTPOC. Copies are also available at the library.