Feminist Book Club: May 2025
📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 is a space to read, think about, and discuss books with people who have diverse, interesting perspectives informed by their individual experiences. We learn more about each other every time we meet, and it’s fun to compare and contrast what each book brings up for us, how we see the characters, and what takes a book to the category of favorites.
This month, we’re reading How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung, taking us to postapocalyptic New York City. It’s science fiction, it’s dystopia, it’s magical realism, and it’s queer.
🗓 Wednesday, May 21
🕕 6pm
📍 @poincianapaperpress, 12 Parkgate Road
🔗 Register: tiny.cc/fbc2025
From the publisher:
“Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives.”
🗞 Kirkus said, “Surreal imagery combines with poetic prose to illustrate what life and love look like when crisis becomes commonplace and everyone is grieving―even the ghosts. At once absurd and profound.” People called it “a moving exploration of grief and survival.”
💬 Reviewers have said this book:
• is weird
• needs to be read as poetry
• is emotional and weirdly hopeful
• odd and compelling
• demands an open mind
• wants you to just go with it
• not going to be for everyone
Sounds like quite an experience, right? Let’s do it together!