Feminists Do: Hybrid Book Club--Feminists On the Road: What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

Name: Feminists Do: Hybrid Book Club--Feminists On the Road: What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
Start: 2025-10-13T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751

Schedule

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751 | Austin, TX

Feminists On the Road: What Kind of Paradise (Feminists Do...)
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Feminists Do… explores a rotating roster of genres and topics through an intersectional feminist lens. This hybrid book club meets both in-person and online every second Monday at 7:00pm. Themes change every three months—check back for future themes, or sign up for our Feminists Do email list to get updates, reminders, and opportunities to weigh in on the upcoming selections.
We love a good travel story! These fictional tales will take us on adventures of growth, hijinks, and coming of age. Our first title of this theme turns the drama up to 11 as we join the sheltered Jane on a suspenseful journey from her secluded life off the grid to 1990s San Francisco, where she hopes to learn about her mother's death and flee her father's secret life of crime.
October 13: What Kind of Paradise, Janelle Brown
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s death: San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.
In this sweeping, suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our dreams for the future.