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SUMMARY:Georgetown Library Sunday Book Club
LOCATION:Georgetown Neighborhood Library\nGeorgetown Neighborhood Library
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DESCRIPTION:In October we'll discuss the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
 \nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/17543626
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 up" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Link to Orbital in the DCPL cata
 log"><em>Orbital</em></a>\, told over the course of 24 hours\, follows six
  astronauts and cosmonauts from Japan\, the United States\, Britain\, Ital
 y\, and Russia\, four men and two women\, aboard the International Space S
 tation as they orbit Earth. In addition to detailing the official duties a
 nd tasks of the astronauts aboard the spacecraft\, the novel also features
  their reflections about humanity and subjects including the nature or exi
 stence of God\, the meaning of life\, and existential threats such as clim
 ate change. Each chapter of the novel covers a single 90-minute orbit arou
 nd Earth\, with 16 orbits in the 24 hours.</p>\n<p>The novel won the 2024 
 Booker Prize&nbsp\;and the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the O
 rwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for imag
 inative fiction.</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/1754362
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