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Don't always get the book read? This book club is for you. Dive into short stories and novellas of all genres. This month's selection is "It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over." Age 18 and up.
If you have the best of intentions about book clubs, but don't always get the book read, this is for you! If you want to try a new genre without committing to a full book, this is also for you. We'll be diving into short stories and novellas spanning all genres. This month's selection is the winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin prize, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken. Please contact Emily Bedwell at ebedwell@mcpl.info if you have any questions about this program.
Summary:
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known?where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.
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