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SUMMARY:Paradise City Readers: Death of the Author
DESCRIPTION:Paradise City Readers is a small inclusive community of 
 readers. We get together to talk about a diversity of books\, written by a 
 variety of authors\, and an even wider range of topics. On the first Monday 
 of every month we assemble for discussion inspired by a selected book. You 
 don’t have to read the entire book to join with us. You really don’t 
 have to read even part of the book at the center of our gathering. But it 
 does help. All are warmly welcome.\n\nThis month's discussion will be about 
 Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor.\n\nAbout the book: \n\n \n\nIn this 
 exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author 
 Nnedi Okorafor\, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly 
 successful Sci-Fi novel\, but as her fame rises\, she loses control of the 
 narrative—a surprisingly cutting\, yet heartfelt drama about art and 
 love\, identity and connection\, and\, ultimately\, what makes us human. 
 The future of storytelling is here.\n\nDisabled\, disinclined to marry\, 
 and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law\, 
 Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then 
 her life is upended when\, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean 
 wedding\, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and\, to 
 add insult to injury\, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With 
 her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop\, she decides to write 
 something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet\, 
 literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a 
 far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of 
 human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.\n\nWhen Zelu finds the 
 courage to share her strange novel\, she does not realize she is about to 
 embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into 
 literary stardom\, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was 
 meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space\, Zelu’s 
 novel will change the future not only for humanity\, but for the robots who 
 come next.\n\nA book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and 
 being written\, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that 
 manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the 
 heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly 
 funny\, deeply poignant\, and endlessly discussable\, this is at once the 
 tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a 
 testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it. 
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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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URL:https://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/12100247
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