The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Happy Stories, Mostly' by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Thursday 27 October 2022, 8.00PM

Join us for the October meeting at The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Norman Erikson Pasaribu's Happy Stories, Mostly (Tilted Axis Press, 2021).

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022, Pasaribu's Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, experimental collection of ten stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil's concept of 'decreation', and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, the stories put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters. A bland of science fiction, absurdism, and alternative historical-realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a powerful puff of fresh air, aimed at destabilising the heteronormative worldand exposing its underlying rot.

Please register in advance for this meeting.

Everyone is welcome!

You can purchase a copy of Sabrina from Fox Lane Books.

Location: Online via Zoom

Email: kw1408@york.ac.uk