BPL Book Prize Book Club: Preparation for the Next Life

Thu, Nov 6 2025
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Flatbush, Caribbean Literary & Cultural Center

book club book discussion BPL Book Prize

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, we are celebrating all year-long with book clubs featuring past winners. This meeting, we will be discussing 2015 fiction winner Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish.


 

Skinner hitchhikes to New York, newly returned from Iraq, hoping to exorcise his demons. Zou Lei, an undocumented immigrant from Central Asia, catches a bus into the city, searching for a way to get by—or at least stay out of jail. Their unlikely love story becomes the heart of one of the most compelling and widely acclaimed novels in years.

 

A clear-eyed illustration of life in New York City's margins, Preparation For the Next Life evokes the unsettling realities of the American Dream for U.S. immigrants and unsupported veterans in stark, vivid detail. At once a nightmare and a love letter to New York City (a place one loves partly for its host of nightmares), Lish's prose is disciplined yet always alive and taut with danger, rendered with the voice of a new and natural talent.

2015 BPL Book Prize Winner: Fiction

Preparation for the Next Life Cover

You can place your copy on hold here. We look forward to discussing with you! 

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