In a world full of screens and growing parasocial relationships, award-winning Vancouver author Anakana Schofield's new novel Library of Brothel is a call to cultivate and protect human connections. Library of Brothel, by Anakana Schofield. In a world full of screens and parasocial relationships, the new novel Library of Brothel from Vancouver’s Anakana Schofield reminds readers of the necessity of human connection. Delivered in an absurdist fashion, the novel warns of social extinction as it holds a mirror up to today's tech-dominated, unaffordable world. "We're so blessed in Vancouver to have these artist-run spaces, and we need to really, really be sensible about preserving them … we need cultural citizenship here."