Lit Happens Adult Book Club: Animal Farm

Lit Happens is our new adult book club, meeting the first Saturday monthly at 1 PM. At our first meeting, the group members chose titles for April, May, and June: 

• April 5: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
• May 3: Animal Farm
• June 7: Liberation Day

May's selection is Animal Farm, by George Orwell. This book was originally published in 1945, with a new film adaptation set to debut this year.

From the publisher:

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

Copies of the book will be available for pickup at Dormont Library in mid-March. Copies are also available in ebook and audio formats on Libby.