This month’s book club pick is Nicked by MT Anderson. From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightful work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint. The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. Nicephorous, a lowly monk, and Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter, are on a heist for the ages to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.
Copies of the book are available at Honokaa Library’s circulation desk. All books we read are chosen by members of the group.
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