SALT LAKE CITY, UT | The King's English Bookshop presents Laura Pritchett at The Neighborhood Hive
Schedule
Wed Feb 21 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
The Neighborhood Hive SLC | Salt Lake City, UT
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Laura Pritchett is coming to Salt Lake City to celebrate her new novel Playing with Wildfire! Laura Pritchett will be giving a visual presentation about wildfire paired with a discussion of her novel.As fires rage through communities across the world, and the earth's climate rapidly changes, how do we inhabit this moment? How should we write about the crisis?
When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents find themselves gathering in unexpected ways—resulting in new friendships that bridge old wounds and political divides, love stories that sizzle, and new ways of rethinking the ways in which creatures inhabit a changing planet.
In Playing with Wildfire, award-winning author Laura Pritchett creates a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and considers how destruction can lead to renewal.
“At levels both micro and macro, Pritchett brings an electric connectivity to her portrait of the precariousness of this one wild, threatened world.”—BOOKLIST, starred review
Pritchett, who lived on the edge of Colorado’s largest wildfire, has become one of the West’s major voices on environmental issues. Author of six other novels, two nonfiction books, and editor of three environmental anthologies, her work has been the recipient of the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, several Colorado Book Awards, and others. Her best-known novel, Stars Go Blue, has been optioned for TV rights. Now comes Playing with Wildfire, which sets sparks within the literary landscape.
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Where is it happening?
The Neighborhood Hive SLC, 2065 E 2100 S,Salt Lake City,UT,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
