Book Club

Keep St. Pete Lit invites you to a monthly book club gathering in collaboration with Florida Craft Art. The bookclub meeting will take place in the Classroom upstairs above Florida Craft Art Gallery in the Art Lofts space. Enter the RED double doors off 5th St. N. and take the elevator to access the classroom. It is directly across from the elevator on the 2nd floor.  Suggested donation is $5.00
The selection for January is When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. 

In the first adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Ogress and The Orphans, Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a trail of fiery destruction in their path; and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. It’s taboo to speak of. 

Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of this astonishing event: a mother more protective than ever; an absentee father; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden.

In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the tyranny of forced limitations. When Women Were Dragons exposes a world that wants to keep women small—their lives and their prospects—and examines what happens when they rise en masse and take up the space they deserve.

Date: Wednesday, January 8th

Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Location: Art Lofts at Florida Craft Art

10 5th St. N. St. Pete

 

Upcoming Book Club picks: 

February: Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares

March: North Woods by Daniel Mason