August Branch Out Book Club: Nicked by M.T. Anderson

Join booksellers Caleb and Katie for Titcomb's Bookshop's Branch Out Book Club! Our August book club selection is Nicked by M.T. Anderson, and our meeting will be held at Titcomb's Bookshop on Tuesday, August 19th at 6:30pm.

Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling the bookshop at 508-888-2331.

ABOUT THE BRANCH OUT BOOK CLUB

This book club, hosted by booksellers Katie (Marketing & Communications Specialist) and Caleb (Antiquarian/Used Books Specialist), invites folks to read books that may be outside of their typical reading comfort zone.

From offbeat literary fiction to fantasy, romance, or sci-fi, we aim to expand our minds by expanding our reading choices. Each month, we will mix up the genre or theme and offer a welcoming environment for our community to read together and share thoughts and reflections.

The Branch Out Book Club will meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at Titcomb's Bookshop (unless otherwise noted).

ABOUT THE BOOK

AN NPR NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint

"[A] rollicking comic novel."—NPR

"The 11th century queer romantic adventure you didn’t know you were looking for."—Los Angeles Times

"Miracles, marvels, saints, sinners, love, plague, and treachery! A medieval feast of a novel, stuffed with everything I could have wished for."—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus.

Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide.

What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M. T. ANDERSON is the New York Times best-selling author of Feed, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, winner of the 2006 National Book Award; and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Prize winner, among many other books for children and young adults. He is also the author of three graphic novels, including The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, a National Book Award finalist, with Eugene Yelchin. Elf Dog & Owl Head, his most recent novel for children, won a Newbery Honor. He lives in New England.

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