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Event Factory
Event Factory | Renee Gladman
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Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the city's erosion, she is beset by this other crisis an ontological crisis as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening. EVENT FACTORY is the first in a trilogy of novels Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign "other" place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all."
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CaitlinByTheBook
Event Factory | Renee Gladman
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Mehso-so

Finished this one by an indie publisher for the #litsyreadingchallenge2017. It was, well, different. It left a lot up to the imagination. A little too much for my taste. But the challenge is getting me to read things I wouldn't otherwise have read so there we go!

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ReadingEnvy
Event Factory | Renee Gladman
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Uhoh if a book starts with a Beckett quote but I've never read Beckett, is that a warning?

Lindy I don't know, but I guess you will find out. 😉 8y
Laalaleighh Waiting for Godot is pretty short. And then you can make sophisticated literary puns about it. Also it will shock you how much is based on or inspired by it. 8y
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