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Join us on Thursday, September 17th at 7pm for the first meeting to discuss our September book, Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots.Location: Orlando Milkhouse Eatery & Cocktails
Meetup starts at 7pm.
Book discussion starts at 7:30pm.
*Happy hour ends at 7, so get there early for discounted food and drinks!
Second meeting will take place on Thursday, September 24th. Come to one or both! The full book will be discussed at both meetings.
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Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?
As a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one.
So, of course, then she gets laid off.
With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.
Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance.
It’s not too long before she’s employed once more, this time by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable lieutenant, she might just save the world.
A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial office politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
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Orlando Milkhouse Eatery & Cocktails, 205 N Bumby Ave, Orlando, FL 32803-6023, United States
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