Fowl Eulogies by Lucie Rico

URBAN 9th Grade PARENTS BOOK CLUB presents.... A surreal novel about the all-consuming desire to render homage to a life Fowl Eulogies by Lucie Rico Upon her mother’s death, Paule Rojas, a vegetarian city-dweller, returns to the chicken farm where she grew up. Pressured to fulfil her mother’s last request, Paule rediscovers pleasure and meaning in running the old family business. Yet, eager to bring something of herself to a family tradition, Paule embarks on increasingly intricate ways of helping the chickens to self-actualize before their deaths. She records the chickens’ life stories, adding them to the labels that decorate the vacuum-packed meat sent off to market—an individual biography for every chicken. But not all runs smooth in her childhood village; Paule finds she has few friends and many enemies. She is forced to spread her wings, relocate her livestock, and oversee the construction of an urban farm of never-before-seen practices and proportions. To be discussed, dissected and devoured THURSDAY MAY 21 @ 7PM Location: Black Bird Bookstore, 4541 Irving St, San Francisco RSVP on What's App or by adding your name(s) in the Gift Message at Checkout here