Unreal Reads: Bloodchild and Other Stories

Bloodchild and Other Stories is renowned author Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work, and features the Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories "Bloodchild" and "Speech Sounds." Join our fiction book club to discuss this collection in August. Print copies available at the Brighton Branch front desk, while supplies last. The Unreal Reads book club reads fiction of all kinds. We typically meet on the first Thursday of the month, 6:30 pm at the Brighton Branch, barring holidays or special events. No registration required, you're welcome to drop in. We also welcome readers who decided not to or weren't able to finish the book — as long as you're okay with spoilers. From the book description: Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God gran

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