Welcome to 2019, my fellow travelers. I’m here with your February choice for book club! With an unprecedented number of votes, your choice is . . .
How Long Til Black Future Month?: Stories (2018)
Written by: NK Jemisin
Discussion date: 2/22/19
Premise:
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
So March is Women’s History Month, and in that vein, this month’s theme is historical fantasy written by ladies. Take a gander at these options:
I have been a terrible book club slacker but I really want to read How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?. I’m determined to actually participate this time.
Happy to have you participate whenever!