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The Short Stack Book Club will meet the third Friday of the month to discuss short novels. This month’s selection is She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor. A young woman named Najeeba grapples with her place in the world. Najeeba feels called to accompany her father and brothers on their annual journey on the salt road—a trip customarily unavailable to girls. Despite the threat of becoming a social outcast, even to her closest friends, stubborn Najeeba goes along to help collect the salt left in the dead lake and sell it at the large desert market several days’ travel from their village. While on her first trip, Najeeba has a strange encounter with a witch in the desert, and the contact changes her—what she sees, what she dreams, and who she becomes. Her spirit begins to move outside herself. Transformative experiences on the road and reading done at the village’s Paper House lead to more questions than answers. As Najeeba delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding the salt road and her family history, she must confront not only external forces but also the transcendent power within herself.

Copies will be held at the circulation desk for check out. Drop-ins are welcomed.