Published: February 7, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 533 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States
Discussing Orbital by Samantha Harvey Note: book pick has changed from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Led by former Greenlight general manager Alexis, our Fiction Book Group meets monthly to discuss paperback fiction, reading broadly in contemporary fiction with the occasional diversion into classics.
For February, the group discusses Orbital, the New York Times bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize 2024, by Betty Trask Prize — winner Samantha Harvey. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space — not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. As we glimpse moments of their earthly lives and are with them as they experience the at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate expedition, we too are taken on a profound and contemplative journey. An eloquent meditation on space and life, Orbital is a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet.
Time: 7:00 pm EST
Free!
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