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/p>\nThe Solidarity Stories: Community - Le d Book Discussion takes place the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the upstair s lounge area of Mixt Food Hall in Brentwood\, MD. Limited parking is avai lable via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required\, but participants ar e welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website: \;https://mixtfoodhall.co m
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"In this exhilarating tale\, a disabled Nigerian American woman pe ns a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel\, but as her fame rises\, she loses co ntrol of the narrative&mdash\;a surprisingly cutting\, yet heartfelt drama about art and love\, identity and connection\, and\, ultimately\, what ma kes us human. This is a story unlike anything you&rsquo\;ve read before. T he future of storytelling is here. Disabled\, disinclined to marry\, and m ore interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law\, Zel u has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when\, in the middle of her sister&rsquo\;s lavish Caribbe an wedding\, she&rsquo\;s unceremoniously fired from her university job an d\, to add insult to injury\, her novel is rejected by yet another publish er. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop\, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet \, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It&r squo\;s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel\, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey&mdash\;one that will catapult her in to literary stardom\, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space\, Zelu&rsqu o\;s novel will change the future not only for humanity\, but for the robo ts who come next. Surprisingly funny\, deeply poignant\, and endlessly dis cussable\, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking ever ything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape t he world as we know it."
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\nThe Solidarity St ories: Community - Led Book Discussion takes place the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the upstairs lounge area of Mixt Food Hall in Brentwood\, MD. Li mited parking is available via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required\ , but participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from M ixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website: https://mixtfoodhall.com
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