ALN Monthly Book Club: The Ministry of Time, A Novel (Online)

For our December Monthly Book Club, we will be reading Kaliane Bradley's "The Ministry of Time!"

We will be hosting this event online, via Zoom!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3591477002

Content warning: Depictions of depression and PTSD, racism, colonialism, homophobia, and death. Brief mentions of genocide, rape, and cannibalism. Details not given here to avoid spoilers. Contact an organizer if you have concerns about the book's content.

In near-future Britain, a narrator known as “the bridge” is hired by a newly founded ministry devoted to experimenting with time-travel. She is assigned to be a monitor and guide for Commander Graham Gore, one of five “expats” who have been pulled from the past to the present. Gore, a nineteenth-century naval officer plucked from the throes of the doomed Franklin Expedition, lives with the bridge in London and participates with the other expats in exercises that are intended to acclimate them to the present, while being monitored for signs of physical, mental, or dimensional deterioration. But as the bridge grows closer to Gore, it gradually becomes clear that all is not what it seems, and the government can’t (and won’t) be willing to protect everyone.

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events:
January: Filterworld, by Kyle Chayka
February: The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
March: Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde
April: The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
May: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
June: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
July: The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
August: Forging Hephaestus, by Drew Hayes
September: 2025-2026 ALN Book Selection!