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SUMMARY:FFL's Fictional Book Club:  Death of the Author
DESCRIPTION:In FFL's newest book club\, discuss how these fictional stories 
 and characters come to life (or don't) over snacks and coffee.\n\nRegister 
 below or contact\, Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov   \n\nAbout 
 This Month's Book: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor\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. \n\n \n\n\nLimited copies of the book are 
 available for checkout at the Main Desk. \n
LOCATION:Pickering Room\, Main Library 
ORGANIZER;CN="Barbara Shatara":MAILTO:bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov
CATEGORIES:Featured 
CONTACT;CN="Barbara Shatara":MAILTO:bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov
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