For our November meeting we'll be reading **The Axeman's Carnival,** Catherine Chidgey's darkly comic novel about violence, loneliness, human nature, and the strange relationship between the human and natural worlds. Set in NZ on a farm in the South Island, the novel follows Tama, a rescued magpie whose remarkable ability to mimic human speech makes him an unlikely star. As Tama becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of Marnie and her husband Rob, he observes the tensions, secrets, hopes and violence within their troubled marriage. From his unusual perspective, the boundaries between the…
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