Camp Coffee Book Club - November

In Sunbirth by An Yu, two sisters live in the remote village of Five Poems Lake, where the sun is slowly disappearing. The younger sister runs her family’s traditional medicine pharmacy while her older sister works at a struggling wellness parlor, both watching their community sink deeper into cold, hunger, and despair. Mysterious figures called Beacons—people with blinding light for heads—begin to appear, raising questions about whether they bring hope or doom. A long-lost photograph of their missing father may hold the key to both the Beacons’ meaning and the truth about his disappearance.