Strange Lands Sci-Fi Book Club: "Almanac of the Dead"
Discuss Award Winning Science Fiction Novels
Book Club copies of "Almanac of the Dead" by Leslie Marmon Silko will be available at the Ask-A-Librarian desk at Central Library.
When the ex-mistress of a sinister cocaine wholesaler takes a job as secretary to a Native American clairvoyant who works the TV talk show circuit, she begins transcribing an ancient manuscript that foretells the second coming of Quetzalcoatl and the violent end of white rule in the Americas. Witches and shamans across the country are working to fulfill this prophecy, but the capitalist elite is mounting a dirty war of its own, with weapons such as heroin and cocaine.
Meets on the third Wednesday of each month at The Java Shack in Clarendon.
- Date:
- Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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