Join the PS! Book Club on June 20th at 7:00 pm, for a thoughtful discussion of Piranesi by renowned author, Susanna Clark.
Piranesi, the second novel by Susanna Clark, is a fantasy novel, for which the author won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The novel centers on Piranesi, a man who resides in the ‘House’, a grand three-tiered labyrinth filled with statues, beset by floods, and surrounded by celestial objects. The book follows him as he learns to survive and explores the world around him, including the things he finds, and his companion in the labyrinth.
Born in Nottingham, England, Susanna Clarke wrote her widely acclaimed first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, over a period of 10 years, finally seeing it in publication in 2004. The eldest daughter of a Methodist minister and his wife, she was educated at St. Hilda’s College in Oxford, England. In addition to her writing, Clarke spent two years teaching English as a foreign language in Turin, Italy and Bilbao, Spain. After returning to England, she was hired as an editor of cookbooks by Simon & Schuster in Cambridge. She spent her free time attending workshops, working on her novel, and writing short stories. She published seven short stories in anthologies and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award in 2001.
Remaining 2022 Book List:
July 18: “Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart
August 15: “The Glass Hotel” by Emily St. John Mandel
September 19: “A Woman of Intelligence” by Karin Tanabe
October 17: “Blacktop Wasteland” by S.A. Cosby
November 21: “The Undocumented American” by Karla Cornejo Villaviciencio
December 19: “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” by V.E. Schwab