Author Talk & Book Signing

Ink Fish Books is proud to be a partner bookstore for this free community event with Barrington Land Conservation Trust featuring Elizabeth Rush — author of the new book “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” A Pulitzer Prize-finalist, author Elizabeth Rush tackles three daunting topics in her new book: Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood.

In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the research vessel “Nathaniel B. Palmer.” Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise.

In “The Quickening,” Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage. What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. “The Quickening” teems with their voices—with the colorful stories and personalities of Rush’s shipmates—in a thrilling chorus.

Register at the link below.

Books will be for sale and signing at the event and available in store and online at inkfishbooks.com.