Book Club Station South, 30th Sept, How Do People Stay the Same
Mark Bowles
Come and join us for Jot Book Club at Station South, Levenshulme.
30th September, 7-8.15pm
Meet and talk with other readers in an informal, loosely structured setting about your impressions, feelings, interpretations, associations and pleasures of reading our chosen book.
Everyone welcome!
Our March Book Club will be reading 'How Do People Stay the Same' (Galley Beggar Press), by Mark Bowles
Purchase of the book here will secure you a place in the club on a first come first served basis.
PLEASE NOTE:
You can choose to have your book home delivered at the usual rate of postage or to be picked up for free at our Station South pop-up shop on the following days ONLY:
- Sunday 30th August 10-4pm
- Sunday 13th September 10-4pm
- Sunday 27th September 10-4pm
About the book:
Told as a series of journal entries that move backwards in time, How Do People Stay The Same follows the life of Patrick Boyd – from the present-day contentment of family life and back to a darker, lonelier childhood.
How Do People Stay The Same lays all of Patrick’s experience before us, with the challenges of work, housing and all the other pinpricks of existence jostling with his complex inner world.
It reveals a fragile man ground down by the world around him–but who might just be able to change and might just have the hope of a brighter future.
Featuring the exquisite prose and lacerating wit that readers loved so much in All My Precious Madness, How Do People Stay The Same is also a deeply tender project – an exploration of family, childhood, love, and the personal bonds that tie us together.