Alternate History Book Club - Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

Join us at the Alternate History Book Club for a lively discussion on Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. Dive into a world where the past takes a different turn, blending imagination with historical events. Let's unravel the twists and turns together! Get ready to share your thoughts and insights face to face with fellow book lovers.

Ticket includes a copy of Cahokia Jazz and $10 towards your first beverage at

• Come to meet new people and have a great conversation!
• Discussion led by Rediscovered Books Booksellers, Ben and Rebecca G
• Enjoy a cocktail or glass of wine.
• Seating is limited to 12 participants, registration is required for each person.
• Haven’t finished the book? Come anyway, but we cannot promise no spoilers.
• Must be 21 or older to attend.

If you have already purchased the book from Rediscovered Books, please email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] and we will issue you a gift card equal to the cost of the book after you have registered.

About the Book:

Like his earlier novel Golden Hill, Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920s--a fully imagined world filled with fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. In the main character of hard-boiled detective Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot.

One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing people of every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. Yet that corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth.

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