The Big Reads Book Group: Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

About this event

*Please note that we will NOT be meeting in December. Have a great holiday season and see you in the new year!* The Big Reads Book Group highlights one of our favorite recent reads and is led by a rotating cast of Reads & Company Booksellers. It meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7 pm. For the November 4th meeting, we will discuss Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. The book group is free and all are welcome! Books are available for purchase at Reads & Company with a 20% discount. About Exit Party: The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexpli

Who

• Emily St John MandelAuthor

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Venue

Reads & Company

234 Bridge St, Phoenixville, PA

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