Registration opens:
August 13th, 2025

Environmentalism Book Club

"Everything for Everyone" by M.E. O'Brien

A future history of our own world in the mid-twenty-first century told as a series of twelve fictional oral history interviews conducted with a variety of New Yorkers in the late 2060s and 70s.

Our 9th selection is a Fictional title, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

FROM CATALOG

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism--New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.

Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

This group will meet the second Wednesday of each month. Registration is required. 

This title is available now as an eBook via Hoopla.

If you have any questions, please email: elyse.kaderli@westlakelibrary.org 

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