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Experience the power of life-changing literature with preeminent climate change writer Elizabeth Rush, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and the forthcoming The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.
Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.
Elizabeth Rush
Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Rising weaves the firsthand accounts of those who are living through sea level rise today with eyewitness reporting from our shoreline’s disappearing places.