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Peace Builders’ Reading Circle

September 19

Join the Peace Builders’ Reading Circle in cultivating a foundation for peace one book at a time. Click the heading for this month’s title and more information.

This month’s book: Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood

 Information: Fiction, 289 pages, 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction; 2020 & 2021 Holbrooke Award Winner

Summary: Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison.
 
Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.

Review: “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”Boston Globe

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Date:
September 19

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The International Peace Museum
10 N. Ludlow St.
Dayton, OH 45402 United States
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