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Sat 11/18, 2023, 7:30pm
Event Format:In-person and Livestream
Town Hall Seattle and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle present
An Evening of Music Inspired by Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Sharp and Spirited Satire
($15.00 – $20.00)
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 7:30PM

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The Wyncote NW Forum
1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, Washington 98101
A livestream of this event will also be available.

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.

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.

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.

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