May 5, 2020
6pm
Admission: FREE
at Zoom
Event, Exhibition Programming, Kimball Art Center’s Book Club
What better way to spend this time at home than in the pages of a good book? Join us in May as we discuss Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Uniting art and literature, let’s come together for an engaging conversation that will expand our experience of the book as well as our recent exhibitions, Xi Zhang: Dream Dust Milkshake and Jiyoun Lee-Lodge: Mindscape.
Please email Hillary.Gilson@kimballartcenter.org to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link.
About Exhalation:
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE WASHINGTON POST • TIME MAGAZINE • NPR • ESQUIRE • VOX • THE A.V. CLUB • THE GUARDIAN • FINANCIAL TIMES • THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
“Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a collection of short stories that will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. The best kind of science fiction.” —Barack Obama, via Facebook
“THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD.”
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.
Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.
