Lit Night - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

About this event

Every month we get together to hang out, grab drinks if you choose to, and discuss a book we've read together! ABOUT SEPTEMBER'S BOOK: Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that is acclaimed for its experimental narrative structure, which utilizes a frame story set in the Inverted Theater, a dreamlike space where an unnamed spectator witnesses the tale. The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace. But that god cannot be contained forever. With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.