Author Event: How to Capture Carbon by Cameron Walker

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In a dozen luminous stories, How to Capture Carbon brings readers to the water’s edge, where the known world collides with magic and with the mysterious depths of the human heart. In the award-winning “Star, Fish,” a pandemic turns children into sea creatures, while their mother negotiates the delicate balance between grief and growth. In other stories, a woman turns to baking to stem the tide of hopelessness during a natural disaster, and a young man sets off to see the world in a flying coat. Lyrical and dreamlike, these and other stories stories navigate the seas of a changing climate and the transformative power of loss–and of love.

“Hypnotic, surprising, and seductive, Walker’s stories are grounded in reality until—in an understated leap into the magical—they aren’t. The ride is a joy.” —Heidi Reimer, author of The Mother Act

“With luminous precision, Cameron Walker reveals the dangers and enchantments of the natural world, and creates situations that are as dazzling as they are disturbing.” —April Ayers Lawson, author of Virgin and Other Stories“

These brilliant stories feel written in the sand with a stick in a language that won’t wash away. Cameron Walker has reimagined the natural world to honor its hilarious spells and breathtaking miracles and somber cries for help. She makes me believe in her make-believe. I absolutely love this book.” —Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Happily

Cameron Walker is a writer based in California. Her journalism, essays, and fiction have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Hakai, The Missouri Review, and The Last Word on Nothing. She’s won awards for her writing from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the American Institute of Physics, and Terrain.org.How to Capture Carbon is her fiction debut.She is also the author of National Monuments of the U.S.A., a book for kids beautifully illustrated by Chris Turnham, and of the essay collection, Points of Light: Curious Essays on Science, Nature, and Other Wonders Along the Pacific Coast.

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Napa Bookmine, 1625 2nd St, Napa, United States