Monday 11 August – 6pm
BOO BOOK CLUB KLAXON / Cahokia Jazz
Cahokia Jazz is an alternate-history detective novel by Francis Spufford released in Great Britain in 2023 and the United States in 2024
A murder takes place on the roof of a Cahokian government building. The murder seems to be an Aztec human sacrifice, two detectives, Phineas Drummond, a white man and Joe Barrow, a Native American, are assigned to investigate.
The book is an alternative history set in the city of Cahokia, near present-day St. Louis. In the book’s timeline a less deadly strain of smallpox was introduced to the Americas, giving the Native Americans immunity against the other, more deadly, smallpox strains
“Spufford is one of our most interesting and unpredictable writers – his career has leapt from memoirs to essays and then, via a kind of fact/fiction mashup (Red Plenty), to two superb novels: Golden Hill and Light Perpetual.” Alex Preston, The Guardian
Please come along – friendly group, teas, coffees and the odd can of beer.
