Date Change: The Big Read: Social Outsiders!

Come join us in the park to discuss the theme of ‘social outsiders’ explored in 2 books:,

1. 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead', by Olga Tokarczuk

2. 'Convenience Store Woman', by Sayaka Murata.

The lead female characters In both books are to a large extent social outsiders, highly resistant to mainstream social norms, but in very different ways.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Lifted from a Guardian review of the book:

“(This book is)... an astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility. Her subject is the entire “cosmic Catastrophe that gave the world its being” also "A... murder mystery, dark feminist comedy and paean to William Blake from the Polish winner of the 2018 International Man Booker prize".

(https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/21/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-review)

Please note that a free download seems to be available here: https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/olga-tokarczuk/pdf-epub-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-download-30250750130/

Convenience Store Woman

From Wiki:
"...South China Morning Post gave the novel four out of five stars, calling it a "cutting commentary on the pressure society puts on its citizens, particularly single women.".... The Guardian gave the book a generally positive review, calling it "sublimely weird" and praising the "nutty deadpan prose and even more nuttily likable narrator".

https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/sayaka-murata/pdf-convenience-store-woman-gadis-minimarket-download/

We will sit outside on the grass (please bring your own rug/chair if necessary) in the area between the Botanical café and the eternal flame pond (near the war memorial).

Please wear something warm and bring a CHAIR or RUG to sit on!