Mayor's Book Club: Lydia Millet

Join us in welcoming New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet whose memoir "We Loved It All" is a selection for this year's Mayor's Book Club.

Millet will be joined by ocean scientist Juli Berwald in a conversation.

A book signing will follow with books available for purchase on site from Black Pearl Books.

Millet’s anti-memoir "We Loved It All" explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened. Emerging from Millet’s quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, the book marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to “the others” — the animals and plants with whom we share the earth.

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. Her novel “A Children’s Bible” was a New York Times Best 10 Books of 2020 selection and shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2019 her story collection “Fight No More” received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her collection “Love in Infant Monkeys” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. She also writes essays, opinion pieces, book reviews, and other ephemera and has worked as an editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. She lives in the desert outside Tucson with her family

Juli Berwald is an ocean scientist and science writer based in Austin. She is the author of the science memoir "Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone."

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