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SUMMARY:Thursday Night Book Club JANUARY
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year! We like to dive into big literary epics in th
 e winter\, and this January we're reading The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson\
 , a powerful historical novel set in the Kingdom of Tonga. About the Boo
 k: Talking corpses\, poetic parrots\, and a fan that wafts the breath of
  life—this is the world young Kōrero finds herself thrust into when a my
 sterious visitor lands on her island\, a place so remote its inhabitants
  have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on t
 he brink of starvation\, and the wayward stranger offers them an impossi
 ble choice: they can remain in the only home they’ve ever known and awai
 t the uncertainty to come\, or Kōrero can join him and venture into unfa
 miliar waters\, guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a boun
 tiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What Kōrero and her people don’t k
 now is that the promised refuge is no utopia—instead\, Tonga is an empir
 e at war and on the verge of collapse\, a place where brains are regular
 ly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some fre
 quency. The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties ar
 e shifting\, graves are being opened\, and everyone lives in fear of a j
 ellyfish tattoo. Here\, survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance
  or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together\, the stranger and Kōrero 
 embark upon an epic voyage—one that will deliver them either to salvatio
 n or to the depths of the Pacific. About the Author: Adam Johnson is the
  author of Fortune Smiles\, which won the National Book Award and the St
 ory Prize\, and The Orphan Master’s Son\, which won the Pulitzer Prize\,
  the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and the California Book Award. His pr
 evious books include the short story collection Emporium and the novel P
 arasites Like Us. Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled me
 mber of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He lives in San Francisco with h
 is wife and children and teaches creative writing at Stanford University
 .\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/96dbbfde-7b5c-4f31-b2fa-ec3190975
 975
LOCATION:White Birch Books\, 2568 White Mountain Hwy\, North Conway\, NH 
 03860
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/96dbbfde-7b5c-4f31-b2fa-ec319097597
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