BOOKCLUB: Annihlation - Jeff Vandermeer

This month we will be reading/discussing Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. If you have not read the book, you are more than welcome to join. Be aware, there will be spoilers!

18:30 - 18:45 - Meet, get drinks, get settled (at the back and upstairs)
18:45 - 19:45 - Discuss the book
19:45 onwards - pick book for next meet and socialize

The Venue: Shinner and Sudtone

A lovely little pub with a variety of craft beer. Usually quiet on a Monday and we get the upstairs area. They serve food and dogs are most welcome.

The Book: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.