Name: Weird Girl Litfic Book Club
Start: 2025-09-15T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 248 N. Main Street, Mooresville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28115

Welcome to the Weird Girl Litfic Book Club—where the protagonists are messy, unhinged, and possibly feral (in the best way). Think surrealism, dark humor, magical realism, and a dollop of horror, all centered on the female experience. If you love weird, bold, and hauntingly beautiful fiction, this is your space. Do you yearn to explore the strange edges of femininity, identity, and reality? Join us in the uncanny.
The book that will be discussed at this meeting will be "Mood Swings" by Frankie Barnet. In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.
Everyone knows something’s off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe everyone’s just so damn sensitive these days. Or maybe it’s because the animals of the world have finally had enough, besieging towns and cities and terrorizing their human residents.
Jenlena and her best friend Daphne are two humanities grads in their early 20s, trying to find their way in a society that has just eradicated all animals for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena transforms from an aspiring poet to a gig worker, capitalizing on other people’s grief by selling house plants that have come to replace pets and cosplaying as dogs for pay. Meanwhile Daphne, a once-promising student, flounders in a deep depression, smoking W**d and ditching work to hang out with her once famous, now canceled boyfriend. When Jenlena meets the California billionaire Roderick Maeve, and the two become romantically entangled, she is exposed to a new understanding of wealth, power, and the gender economy—just as the world hurtles toward its alleged salvation.
Marked with Frankie Barnet’s poignant intelligence and sly sense of humor, Mood Swings is a stand-out debut novel that imagines with pitch-perfect absurdity what comes after life as we know it.