Name: January Book Club
Start: 2025-01-29T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-29T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Blue Planet DC

Book Club is back! We're excited to jump into a new year with "Playground," a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of "The Overstory" at the height of his skills.
Four lives are drawn together on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.
Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity.