Book Club: The Repeat Room – by Jesse Ball

This month's Book Club meeting is going to be a hybrid event and you are welcome to come to the humanist center in person, or to Zoom in using the link below.

This month's selection is The Repeat Room - by Jesse Ball

from Amazon:

The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball
255 pages or 4 hrs 32 mins on Audible

In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.

The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception.

Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball's absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.
Rating on Amazon 3.1 stars

The Book Club meets on the 4th Saturday of every month.

Henry Geist and Vici Duarte are your hosts.

Zoom meeting ID: 914 535 5110
(Open your Zoom app and type this number in the box that comes up after you click on the 'Join' icon)

Note:  The book club meets in the library, which is down the hallway from the great room.