Books & Brew

Come join us for our fun monthly book club meeting now at TBD. Grab a drink, relax, and chat about some great books with us!

March's Book Selection: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

• The first 15 people to register will receive a free copy of Annihilation. Registrants will be notified and books will be available to pick up March 15th. Copies not picked up by March 31st will be given to those on the waitlist in order of registration.
• To obtain a copy of Annihilation, you can borrow a copy from our Library Catalog, find it in digital or audio using the Libby or Hoopla apps, or use our Link+ feature.

Summary

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.