As communities around the globe contend with weather patterns and shifting ecologies brought on by climate change, climate fiction novelists are imagining what different futures and different kinds of adaptation might look like.

Please join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy on Tuesday, July 30, at 6 PM (book discussion at 6:30) at the Cook Library in Tamworth, for a Climate & Community Potluck & Book Discussion. We’ll discuss the novel The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton. The novel begins in the very near future and follows its central character as her community and ecosystem change rapidly in the face of storms and flooding. The book raises questions about individual and community preparedness and the possibilities of adaptation in changing conditions, and is a vivid and exciting summer read!

Among its many public accolades, The Light Pirate is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Price, a USA Today bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club pick, a LibraryReads pick , Book of the Month Club selection, a 2022 NPR "Book We Love" , and a New York Times Editors' Choice book.

This free program is part of the CML/CLC series “Climate & Community.” Please register in advance via chocorualake.org/events or tamworthlibrary.org. Copies of the book are available at Cook Library.

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