Smashing! Read & Resist Book Club

When:
December 6, 2020 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2020-12-06T16:00:00-06:00
2020-12-06T17:00:00-06:00
Cost:
Free

Join us for readings to disrupt the patriarchy! Everyone is invited to take part in our brand-new Smashing! Read & Resist book club, a monthly discussion on works by women, women-identified, trans, and nonbinary writers, focusing on books from small and independent presses. Genres may vary!

** This meeting will take place virtually via Zoom. If you’d like to join in the online chat, PLEASE RSVP becky@malvernbooks.com with “Smashing book club” in the subject line. ***

Our first book is Nine Moons by Gabriela Wiener. This book can be purchased from our store (call us on 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up or to make an appointment) or online via our BookShop site: bookshop.org/a/2325/9781632062239.

A Peruvian journalist’s vibrant musings on pregnancy and childbirth. In this whip-smart follow-up to Sexographies (2018), the author details her nine months of pregnancy as anything but pastel. Wiener interweaves facts on embryonic development and other scientific elements with visceral experience and accounts of her rabbit-hole internet searches to reveal the anxiety of her first full-term pregnancy…. Such dark, fertile forays signal Wiener’s original take on the simultaneously common and unique experience of pregnancy…. The author’s ruminations are consistently provocative, digging into areas many are not willing to go…. Wiener’s reflections on her relationship with her mother, which included microaggressions and tense exchanges, are also illuminating…. Refreshingly literary and offbeat—a mother-to-be book for firebrands. —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

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Join Zoom Meeting here.
Meeting ID: 282 978 3950
Password: 788597

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