Green Peeps Book Club
Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed
Thursday, July 30
5:15pm - 6:45pm
Join this book club to discuss nature-focused reads each month. You'll also learn how to become more ecologically minded through activities and speakers designed to enhance our reading. Age 18 and up.
This month, join us to discuss Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed. We'll be meeting at Lower Cascades Park (2851 Old State Road 37, Bloomington).
Book summary:
"Hannah is a fusion scientist 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 future, a young man from a human settlement on Mars, traveling backwards through time to try to make a crucial intervention in the fate of our dying planet, and he needs Hannah’s help. Laboring in the warmth of a Scottish summer, Hannah and the stranger are on the path towards a breakthrough—and then things go terribly wrong. Joe Mungo Reed’s intricately crafted novel expands from this extraordinary event, drawing together 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 should guide us in a time of crisis—social, technological, or familial—and reckoning with the question of whether there is meaning to be found in the pursuit of salvation beyond success itself, Joe Mungo Reed has written a novel of elegiac wonder and beauty."
Please contact Maggie Hutt at mhutt@mcpl.info if you have any questions about this program.