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SUMMARY:Paradise City Readers: Sea of Tranquility
DESCRIPTION:Respectful\, queer/LGBT-friendly\, easy-going bunch who want an 
 excuse to get out more and talk about books. And have some snacks. Meetings 
 take place on the first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. You can reach our 
 group at paradisecityreaders@gmail.com. \n\nThis month's discussion will be 
 about Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. \n\nAbout the book: 
 \n\nEdwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by 
 steamship\, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe 
 at a dinner party. He enters the forest\, spellbound by the beauty of the 
 Canadian wilderness\, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in 
 an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. Two 
 centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. 
 She’s traveling all over Earth\, but her home is the second moon colony\, 
 a place of white stone\, spired towers\, and artificial beauty. Within the 
 text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man 
 plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal 
 as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts\, a 
 detective in the black-skied Night City\, is hired to investigate an 
 anomaly in the North American wilderness\, he uncovers a series of lives 
 upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness\, a writer trapped far 
 from home as a pandemic ravages Earth\, and a childhood friend from the 
 Night City who\, like Gaspery himself\, has glimpsed the chance to do 
 something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. A 
 virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually 
 playful\, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that 
 precisely captures the reality of our current moment.\n\n \n\n
LOCATION:Community Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Book Discussions, Recurring Events
CONTACT;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
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