Future Present Book Club: No Straight Road Takes You There

Join us for Future Present Book Club with Flying Books author Tomas Hachard!

Does the future seem closer than it used to? Does what seemed unimaginable feel as though it's uncannily creeping into the present? What does that mean for how we live today - or tomorrow?

First up, we're reading beloved author Rebecca Solnit's newest essay collection .

Included in the price of admission:

One beverage (glass of wine/cocktail/mocktail/matcha)

One 20.00 book credit, usable for that night only

An evening of literary discussion, moderated by Flying Books author Tomas Hachard.

About the book:

In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.“I've tried to find other ways of seeing and to prize the migratory routes ideas take,” Solnit writes in the introduction, “the way that hope is most often grounded in memory, because you can't see the future but you can understand the patterns and possibilities if you know the past.”

About Tomas:

Tomas Hachard published with Flying Books in 2023. His short fiction has appeared in The Walrus, and he has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Slate, Guernica Magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, and Hazlitt, among others. He is also a former book and film critic for NPR.

Check out Tomas' substack with info from our first book club!

Important to know:

Ticket price includes HST and fees.

The $20 book credit is only usable on the night of attendance and is non-refundable and non-transferrable.

The glass of wine is also only offered on the night of the event. ID required.

Due to our limited space, book club tickets are only refundable with 7 days' notice.

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