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Spec Fic Book Club - ROSEWATER

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

Speculative Fiction will be meeting on Wednesday February 26th at 7 pm; we will be reading Rosewater by Tade Thompson.

About the book:

Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.

Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless -- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.

Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again -- but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.

Tade Thompson's innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie.

Earlier Event: February 24
Caribbean Reads -- THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING
Later Event: February 27
Small Press - THE LONG FORM