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Town Hall Seattle and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle present
An Evening of Music Inspired by Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Sharp and Spirited Satire
Town Hall is proud to partner with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presenting concerts of original music inspired by literature. Each event showcases a lineup of local, professional musicians and artists each offering a fresh response to that evening’s source text, plus extras like an audience quiz, short film, or scholarly introduction. Book choices range from whimsical to solemn, classic to contemporary, and most every place in between.
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For her second book, Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo tried to write nonfiction about the 2017 coup of Robert Mugabe—what came out instead was the Booker Prize-nominated novel Glory, a bombastic satire in the riotous spirit of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Buckle up.
“By aiming the long, piercing gaze of this metaphor at the aftereffects of European imperialism in Africa, Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” – New York Times Book Review
Check it out at Seattle Public Library. Please consider buying your Bushwick choices with their local bookstore partner, Third Place Books.
Lineup: Salome MC, Naomi Adele Smith, Aline and Wes, Peter Donovan, Gretchen Lemon, Brittany Danielle, Amy Laybourn, Abby K, Wes Weddell
Heads up: with its target on political corruption and hypocrisies, this novel features plenty of toxic masculinity and power run amok.
Presented by Town Hall Seattle and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle.