Get Weird Book Club: Uzumaki

Get Weird Book Club: Uzumaki

Meeting virtually on the last Wednesday of the month to read and discuss all things strange, surreal, unconventional and unexpected.

By Austin Public Library

Date and time

Wednesday, September 25 · 4 - 5pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour

Join us Wednesday, September 26th to discuss Uzumaki by Junji Ito!

Recommended for ages 18 and up.

Please register on Eventbrite to attend. On the day of the event, your book club moderator will use your registration info to email you a reminder and a Microsoft Teams meeting link.

Book Synopsis:

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!

A list of crowdsourced content warnings can be found at the bottom of this page.