Bookmoot: Piranesi—hosted by Camille Floyd and Rabbit Room Press
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“It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same?”
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The Rabbit Room’s Bookmoot selection for the month of March is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Pick up the book from Store.RabbitRoom.com or your favorite book shop and read it in March, then join us here on April 21st where we’ll discuss it together and maybe even invite a special guest or two to expand our understanding of the work.
Are you in Nashville? Click here to RSVP for the in-person discussion on April 13th.
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, “a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,” Piranesi is an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant.
But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
Camille Floyd is a graduate of Lipscomb University where she earned her B.A. in English Literature with a minor in History. After college, she spent a summer at the University of Oxford with a CCCU program studying literature and art criticism. Camille is passionate about creating a vibrant community centered on good stories and thoughtful conversation.
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Camille Floyd is a graduate of Lipscomb University where she earned her B.A. in English Literature with a minor in History. After college, she spent a summer at the University of Oxford with a CCCU program studying literature and art criticism. Camille is passionate about creating a vibrant community centered on good stories and thoughtful conversation.