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Community Book Club: The Ministry of Time

2025-05-15 19:00:00 2025-05-15 20:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Community Book Club: The Ministry of Time In May, we are reading "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley. Squamish Public Library - Library Main Space

Thursday, May 15
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-15 19:00:00 2025-05-15 20:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Community Book Club: The Ministry of Time In May, we are reading "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley. Squamish Public Library - Library Main Space

Squamish Public Library

Library Main Space

In May, we are reading "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley.

Please note that our May Community Book Club meeting has been moved to one week earlier than usual.

Community Book Club is open to everyone and all are welcome! We meet in the main library by the big front windows and tea and cookies are provided.

The library has copies on a first-come-first-served basis.

You can purchase your own copy in person at Gather Bookshop or Book Mountain. Mention the Squamish Library book club to get 15% off your purchase!

About The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley:

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he's a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as "washing machines," "Spotify," and "the collapse of the British Empire." But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts. Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry's project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how--and whether she believes--what she does next can change the future. An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley's answer is a blazing, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.

Registration required.


Accessibility at this event:

  • Accessible, all-genders washroom.
  • Ramp entrance to building with handrails.
  • Masks welcome.
  • Find more information about accessibility at the Squamish Public Library: https://squamishlibrary.ca/accessibility/
  • If you require further accommodations, please let us know on the registration page.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Club |

TAGS: | Book Club | Adults |

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