Reading with Stacy Carlson at Milkweed Books

Milkweed Books welcomes novelist Stacy Carlson to read from her newest novel, The Gyre, and join in conversation with Peter Geye. After the reading, there will be book sales and signing.

ABOUT THE BOOK

An atmospheric journey into the far northern wilds, The Gyre spins one man’s search for meaning into an astonishing saga where adventure, folklore, and the Arctic converge. Arkady Afanasyev, a nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox monk, wants to be the northernmost holy man in the world. Equipped only with prayer books, Arkady sets off across the tundra, haunted by regret, a long-lost family, and a chorus of Orthodox saints and Slavic pagan tricksters. Amid this, in the great, turning, harsh natural world, Arkady is brutally and deeply transformed.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Stacy Carlson is a novelist and naturalist living in Minneapolis. Publishers Weekly called her debut novel, Among the Wonderful, "Intelligent, engrossing, and utterly unique." Her essays and fiction have appeared in Tin House, Post Road, Inkwell, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships and residencies from the Mesa Refuge, The Arctic Circle, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Signal Fire. Stacy's background includes work as a historical ecologist, fish cannery worker, host springs caretaker, and hiking guide in Big Sur.

Peter Geye is the author of the award-winning novels Safe from the Sea, The Lighthouse Road, and Wintering, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Northernmost, The Ski Jumpers, and A Lesser Light. Geye received his MFA from the University of New Orleans and his PhD from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. Born and raised in Minneapolis, he continues to live there with his family.

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