Book Event: Zoë Schlanger

IN-STORE EVENT:
Thursday, May 9, 7:30pm
Zoë Schlanger presents The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Wine reception to follow
Zoë Schlanger's groundbreaking work of popular science The Light Eaters offers a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs? Award-winning science writer Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close. An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants—and our own place—in the natural world. Zoë discusses her work, along with a reading and book signing.

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