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We'll discuss "The Quickening," an astonishing, vital book by Elizabeth Rush about Antarctica, climate change and motherhood. This is an account of the first research voyage in 2019 to the Thwaites Glacier, also dubbed the doomsday glacier. Rush's book "Rising" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Adults.
We'll discuss "The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth," an astonishing, vital book by Elizabeth Rush about Antarctica, climate change and motherhood. This is an account of the first research voyage in 2019 to the Thwaites Glacier, also dubbed the doomsday glacier. Rush's reporting is top-notch, and her personal reflections make this an unusually intimate account of climate change. Her book "Rising" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction.
Adults.
