This month\, join us to discuss \; Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed. We'll be meeting at Lower Casc ades Park (2851 Old State Road 37\, Bloomington).
\nBook summary:
"Hannah is a fusion s
cientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when
she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a visitor from the fu
ture\, a young man from a human settlement on Mars\, traveling backwards t
hrough time to try to make a crucial intervention in the fate of our dying
planet\, and he needs Hannah&rsquo\;s help. Laboring in the warmth of a S
cottish summer\, Hannah and the stranger are on the path towards a breakth
rough&mdash\;and then things go terribly wrong. Joe Mungo Reed&rsquo\;s in
tricately crafted novel expands from this extraordinary event\, drawing to
gether the stories of four lives reckoning with what it means to take fate
into their own hands\, moving from the last days of civilization on Earth
through the birth of another on Mars. In considering which concerns shoul
d guide us in a time of crisis&mdash\;social\, technological\, or familial
&mdash\;and reckoning with the question of whether there is meaning to be
found in the pursuit of salvation beyond success itself\, Joe Mungo Reed h
as written a novel of elegiac wonder and beauty."
Please \;con tact \;Maggie Hutt at mhutt@mcpl.info \;if you have any questions about this program.
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