Welcome to the Club - the Book Club, that is! This monthly event will endeavor to bring you books you haven’t read before from the stories and voices of a diverse collection of authors.
We are so thrilled to be hosting our next book club at Small Gods Brewing Co. While some of our books will be selected from the novels our beers are named after, some of the others will just be novels we cannot wait to discuss with you!
On the Book: There’s a hole in the ozone layer. Are teenage girls to blame?
Floods and wildfires, toxic culture, billionaires in outer space, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms—in today’s hellscape world, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. Last Woman, the new collection of short fiction by award-winning author Carleigh Baker, wants you to know that you’re not alone. In these 13 brilliant new stories, Baker and her perfectly-drawn characters are here for you—in fact, they’re just as worried and weirded-out as everyone else.
On the Author: Carleigh Baker is an author and teacher of nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân (Cree-Métis) and European descent. Born and raised on Stó:lō territory, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwəta (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil Press, 2017), won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Indigenous Voices Award for fiction. Her short stories and essays have been translated into several languages and anthologized in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Her novel-in-progress, Platformer, is about chosen family, storytelling and honeybees. As a teacher and researcher, she is particularly interested in how contemporary fiction can be used to address the climate crisis.
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