Writers Who Read: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

February's book is Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK, 2021) - Sunday, 2:30 pm (for 2 hours), online (see link when you register) & at the Main Boulder Public Library in the Flatirons Meeting Room (2nd floor).

Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is told from the POV of Klara, a product of artificial intelligence. Writing the layers of her discovery of our near-future world is a virtuosic tour de force, and because Ishiguro is careful to tie his speculative fiction back to human issues, Klara is made to be acutely aware of her own mortality, or rather, her obsolescence. Aren't we all?

We are Writers Who Read. We use Literary Forensics to dissect a recent novel (published within the past 18 months) with the goal of uncovering how the author has utilized their skills for effect. Storytelling is an art, but it's not a mystery. Every writer must address the following:

• Structure, Timeline, Pacing, Suspense, Omission
• Point of View, including Voice, Character, Place
• Language, Tense, Imagery, Metaphor, Symbols
• Motivation: Making a story pop - generating a thrill
• Why this story? And why now? Industry considerations

We ask that all attendees read the entire book in advance of the meeting, and come bearing their discoveries of how the author has addressed each of the five points above.

What is Literary Forensics? Find out here: https://www.garyalanmcbride.com/literary-forensics/