Join us for a virtual author talk with Caroline Ailanthus, author of the novel Ecological Memory. 

This program will be on Zoom, and the event will also be streamed at the library in the Setter Room. If you register, you will receive an email with the Zoom link to watch at home. If you would like to watch the Zoom presentation on the big screen at the library, you do not need to register. 

Author Bio: 

Caroline Ailanthus is primarily a science writer; even her fiction blends science and story. She is also the author of the Climate in Emergency blog. Ecological Memory is her second published novel. She grew up in Delaware and attended various small, odd schools, mostly in New England, earning BA in Environmental Leadership and an MS in Environmental Studies. She lives in Maryland with her husband and assorted animals.

Ecological Memory summary: 

Elzy Rodriguez still can’t remember how—or where—she survived the fall of civilization. It’s been twenty years. All she has now is a few memories of the trees she played among as a child. Fortunately, Elzy is apprenticed to the brilliant and mysterious itinerant ecologist, Andy Cote. If anyone can figure out where the forests of her memory grew, he can.

But Andy, too, is lost. When the old civilization fell, his son vanished. Now he has questions he can neither answer nor let go. In helping Elzy reclaim her home, can Andy, too, find peace?

Part scientific detective story, part post-apocalyptic travelogue, Ecological Memory is at heart a tale about what happens after you lose everything.