November Speculative Fiction Blook Club: Everfair

HBB's November Speculative Fiction book club meeting will discuss Everfair by Nisi Shawl! This is a brand new group, so this first meeting will also discuss future meeting organization.

About the book:
Everfair, the brilliant Neo-Victorian alternate-history novel from acclaimed short-story writer Nisi Shawl, potently explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had adopted steam technology as their own.

In Shawl's eloquently explored vision, told by a multiplicity of voices that have historically been silenced—Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another—Fabian socialists from Great Britian join forces with African American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as former slaves returning from America and other places where African natives and their descendants were being mistreated. The work of keeping this land their own is near impossible, and tragedy is unavoidable. Yet the citizens of Everfair are determined, and even try their hand at the rewarding tasks of governance, invention...and romance.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114130-everfair

About the Bookstore:

Book club attendees get 10% of their purchase the day of the event!

Bathroom: All gender, but small and not normally available to the public because it's in the back office. The owner is making exceptions for people who are at the store for events. The sink is outside the bathroom.

Accessibility: There are no stairs. The bookstore aisles are wide enough for a wheelchair. The bathroom is not, however, and might not be accessible for other disabled people. It's very small and it's in the back office.

Covid: Masks optional. There will be an air purifier.

Parking: Unpaid parking is a bit of a walk, but there's paid street parking nearby and a cheap paid lot on the same block. Attendees are encouraged to use public trans.

Drinks are welcome, but please no food unless medically needed.

Buy the book through HBB's bookshop.org page: https://bookshop.org/shop/hauntedburrowbooks
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Listen to the book here through HBB's Libro.FM page: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781515983033
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Or pick up a copy at Haunted Burrow Books!