Author Paolo Bacigalupi will speak at the Bethesda Library on Thursday May 10, 5pm. He will discuss his new book The Drowned Cities. Sequel or companion to Ship Breaker, this powerful book is both well written and powerful. All are invited to attend. Copies of his books will be for sale through an agreement with Politics and Prose Bookstore. For more information, email kathie.weinberg@montgomerycountymd.gov
Parallel stories reveal the lives of two very different people: modern-day Fergus caught up in "The Troubles" in Ireland in the 1980's and an Iron Age girl Fergus finds in a bog with a noose around her neck.