Sci. Fiction/Fantasy Bookclub: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

Schedule

Wed Apr 22 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Lilliput Books | Chicago, IL

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About this Event

As an independent bookstore, we love hosting events like this bookclub and silent bookclub. To keep this group going and support our store, please purchase your monthly pick from us. Your support ensures we can continue to provide this space for readers like you. Thank you for choosing to keep books local! . Use coupon, bookclub1 and save 10%. Pickup in store.

NOTE: We needed to move Dungeon Crawler Carl to May because the book suddenly became super hot and we couldn't acquire enough copies in time.

About the book:
WINNER of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction WINNER of the Otherwise Award Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of award-winning novel The Saint of Bright Doors.

Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story.

Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind.

Tracing two souls through endless lifetimes, Rakesfall is a virtuosic exploration of what stories can be. As Annelid and Leveret reincarnate ever deeper into the future, they will chase the edge of human possibility in a dark science fiction epic unlike anything you've read before.

BYOB (there is a liquor store next door)

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Lilliput Books, 2150 North Halsted Street, Chicago, United States

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