Northwest Sinfonietta

Join us of our third annual book club! We’ll be reading Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, and will gather on Thursday, Sept. 17, 7pm, at King’s Books (218 St. Helens Ave, Tacoma) for discussion with author Ann Putnam and live music program inspired by the vivid world of Piranesi.

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller calls, “a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,” Piranesi in an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Piranesi is widely available online, and offered at King’s Books with a 15% discount.

NWS’s book club Sept. 17 discussion and performance is free with support from the City of Tacoma | Tacoma Creates.

More praise for Piranesi:

Piranesi is a gorgeous, spellbinding mystery that gently unravels page by page. Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can have the pleasure of uncovering its secrets for themselves. —Erin Morgenstern

What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being…Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. — David Mitchell

Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, at once a gripping mystery, an adventure through a brilliant new fantasy world, and a deep meditation on the human condition: feeling lost and being found. I already want to be back in its haunting and beautiful halls! — Madeline Miller