FREE | Tue, Jun 25th at 6pm | Goethe Pop Up Kansas City in the Crossroads Arts District | Read and discuss works by contemporary German authors in this new series from Goethe Pop Up Kansas City.
All books can be read in their recent English translations or in the original German; our discussion will be in English. Coordinated by Chris Walker together with Goethe Pop Up Kansas City, the Goethe Book Club focuses on contemporary fiction and will explore experiences and thoughts about the text.
All our selections can be obtained online via most major vendors in hard copy or digital format. You can also borrow a hard copy from the Pop Up Library at the Goethe Pop Up where we hold two copies of each book in German and in English.
This month's book for discussion: Michelle Steinbeck's "My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water" (2018)
A child attacks Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping. In retaliation Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window, packs the damaged body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels. Thus starts Steinbeck’s unusual, poetic novella about a young woman’s transition from childhood to adulthood. Loribeth and her suitcase begin an odyssey through nightmarish locations in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck.
Free Admission
2019/06/25 - 2019/06/25
Goethe Pop Up Kansas City
1914 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
Street Parking Only