SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Mac’s Science Fiction Book Club will discuss Changeling by Victor Lavalle onThursday February 21st at 7 pm

This novel is a winner of an American Book Award, a Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, a British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel and a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, an International Dublin Literary Award and a Mythopoeic Award for Literature.

When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. At first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression. But before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes. Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His odyssey takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.

Victor LaValle is the author of six previous works of fiction: three novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly, among others. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.

 

 

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1820 Coventry Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118