Fast Reads Book Club: Spent Light by Lara Pawson
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In November, Fast Read book club will be reading a 144-page, boundary defying work by Lara Pawson. A startling hybrid book—fiction, memoir, history, essay—Lara Pawson makes us see the world with fresh eyes—and not look away.
An unnamed woman contemplates the toaster she’s inherited from a neighbour. A homely object, hardly worthy of a sonnet or still-life. And yet, thinking of where its parts originated, who assembled it, and how it arrived at her door, could it not be considered as a source of awe? There is nothing else in contemporary writing quite like this quest to think through the common objects that make up a comfortable life. Pawson makes us see in them all the parameters of history, slavery, genocide, as well as the joy of work, care, physical pleasure—until we realise that this extraordinary book is also a love story.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Spent Light
A drink on arrival
Your spot on the night
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