May's Book is: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
Not the End of the World Book Club (formerly Earth Lovers Book Club) is a monthly discussion of books on the environment, climate change and related topics. Join us for tea, homemade cookies and thoughtful conversation. This is a hybrid book club. Please contact Barbara at bshatara at burlingtonvt dot gov to obtain the Zoom link.
About This Month's Book:
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious haze cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A visionary on his own holy quest, Cause Man Steel seeks the perfect platinum donkey to launch an Aboriginal-owned donkey transport industry, saving Country and the world from fossil fuels. His wife, Dance, seeking solace from his madness, studies butterflies and moths and dreams of repatriating her family to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to end it all by walking into the sea. Their other child, Tommyhawk, wants nothing more than to be adopted by Australia’s most powerful white woman. Praiseworthy is an epic masterpiece that bends time and reality―a cry of outrage against oppression, greed, and assimilation.