Arts & Theatre

Book Club

When

September 21 @ 7PM

Where

Fiction Beer Company, 7101 E Colfax Ave

For September, we focused on banned books that have sat on our TBR list for too long - and the winner is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler! About the book: Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy—a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from