Earth: Our Shared Home Book Series

Join us to discuss a few thought-provoking titles about the interconnected relationship we have with our shared home, planet Earth. This group will span the months of February, March, and April leading up to the globally recognized Earth Day on April 22. We will discuss one  work of nonfiction, and two climate fiction, aka “cli-fi” titles. Join us for as many sessions you’d like! 

Our April title is The Overstory by Richard Powers. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There's something you need to hear."

Here are the selections for each month:

• February Title (non-fiction) - We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy  by Natalie Baszile; et. al.
• March Title (science fiction/cli-fi) - Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• April Title (eco fiction/cli-fi) - Overstory by Richard Powers

Please note: Print copies of each title are available at the Library's circulation desk one month in advance of each discussion. The Overstory is also available as an eAudiobook through Axis 360, Hoopla, & Libby.