Lunchtime Shorts Book Club

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Want to join a book club but cannot find the time?  We have you covered! Our Lunchtime Shorts Book Club focuses on short stories for busy people and we meet for a short time over lunch.  

Good food, good books and good conversation to perk up an otherwise average Wednesday.  

Event is open to the public. Ticket includes copy of the book and $5 voucher to Alia's Coffee House.  Seating is limited, registration required via EventBrite.

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, and unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us. 

Mesmerizing, electric, and wholly original, Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature.

About the Author:

Kim Fu is the author of For Today I Am a Boy which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Fu's writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the TLS. She lives in Seattle.

Event address: 
908 W. Main St.
Boise, ID 83702

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