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SUMMARY:The Book of Joan - by Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:DOES JOAN OF ARC WORK IN THE 21st CENTURY?\nLETS SEE!\n\n🔥
 🔥✝✝\nPLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING ON ON A TUESDAY\n\nIn the near futur
 e\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the
  unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\, humans hav
 e regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering over their e
 rstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the sur
 viving humans have become sexless\, hairless pale-white creatures floating
  in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin.\n\nOut of the ranks of
  the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult 
 leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebe
 ls unite to dismantle his iron rule—galvanized by the heroic song of Joa
 n\, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her
  and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn Joan into a 
 martyr\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one—not the rebels\, J
 ean de Men\, or even Joan herself—can foresee the way her story and uniq
 ue gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generations.\n\nA ri
 veting tale of destruction and love found in direst of places—even at th
 e extreme end of post-human experience—Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of 
 Joan raises questions about what it means to be human\, the fluidity of se
 x and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival.\n\n
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