For February it’s Choose Your Own Adventure fun with The Waiter by Kwan Ann Tan
London, in a not-too-distant future. The city is being swallowed into the ground, the rich are still getting richer, and Waiters do the jobs you don't have time for. They queue for your concert tickets, stay in for your deliveries and stir your risotto.
Step into the shoes of an unnamed Waiter who has no recollection of who they were before their role at the Company. Now select your next job and decide whether to peek into the client's luggage, and if you'll risk losing work credits by helping a tired woman with her shopping. Balance your humanity with your job security at every turn, and manage your creeping desire to understand who you once were, and who you might become. You'll want to crawl as close as possible to the edge of the maw without falling into its depths.
With 11 different endings and countless journeys towards them, The Waiter creates a labyrinthine world of possibilities and parallel worlds which combine to explore queer longing, consumerism and agency in a city and a psyche on the brink of collapse.
Kwan Ann Tan is originally from Malaysia but currently based in London. Her work has previously been published in The Offing, Joyland Magazine, and Sine Theta Magazine. She won the 2023 Bournemouth Writing competition and is an alumnus of the Tin House Winter Workshop. She lives in London.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 11th January from 7:30 to 9pm, at Showroom Bar Cafe
Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of The Waiter by Kwan Ann Tan
Access to the Group on 11th February
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
For February it’s Choose Your Own Adventure fun with The Waiter by Kwan Ann Tan
London, in a not-too-distant future. The city is being swallowed into the ground, the rich are still getting richer, and Waiters do the jobs you don't have time for. They queue for your concert tickets, stay in for your deliveries and stir your risotto.
Step into the shoes of an unnamed Waiter who has no recollection of who they were before their role at the Company. Now select your next job and decide whether to peek into the client's luggage, and if you'll risk losing work credits by helping a tired woman with her shopping. Balance your humanity with your job security at every turn, and manage your creeping desire to understand who you once were, and who you might become. You'll want to crawl as close as possible to the edge of the maw without falling into its depths.
With 11 different endings and countless journeys towards them, The Waiter creates a labyrinthine world of possibilities and parallel worlds which combine to explore queer longing, consumerism and agency in a city and a psyche on the brink of collapse.
Kwan Ann Tan is originally from Malaysia but currently based in London. Her work has previously been published in The Offing, Joyland Magazine, and Sine Theta Magazine. She won the 2023 Bournemouth Writing competition and is an alumnus of the Tin House Winter Workshop. She lives in London.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 11th January from 7:30 to 9pm, at Showroom Bar Cafe
Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of The Waiter by Kwan Ann Tan
Access to the Group on 11th February
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
