Speculative Fiction Book Club: Black Sun

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The library's Speculative Fiction Book Club meets the final Tuesday each month at 7 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

No registration required.

This book club is currently offered online. Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Tuesday December 20 | 7 PM

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.