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Newton Public Library is pleased to welcome Gretchen Cassel Eick for an author talk on her newest novel, "Resistance!"This is a hybrid program: Attend in person at Newton Public Library, or click here to sign up for the Zoom Webinar simulcast: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-w6bbEBqR5Su_vAQL2Jjog. Gretchen will join us in person.
About the Book:
This speculative, near-future novel combines intrigue with romance, carrying readers around the world and back to the multicultural Parisian neighborhood that is its soul. The National Front Party has just been elected in France, and millions of immigrants are fleeing Europe to escape climate extremes and rising sea levels. As Russia tries to militarily rebuild its former empire, accurate and uncorrupted artificial intelligence is the best hope of preventing world war. Caught in this perfect storm are two young Americans, one a young Black woman studying AI at the Sorbonne, the other heir to the world's largest privately-owned oil and gas company. When the National Front Party cracks down on dissent, trains youth to enforce its anti-democratic policies in France and beyond, and pulls France out of NATO, the Americans must decide whether to side with a homegrown, secret Resistance – and how far to trust their hearts in this danger-fraught time.
About the Author:
Visiting and living in other countries shapes Gretchen’s life. She taught in Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and worked on Capitol Hill for 14 years as a foreign policy lobbyist. She has written two award-winning scholarly histories and six novels, including "Resistance!" She was Kansas Authors Club’s Prose Writer of 2021. In her late fifties, she earned a doctorate in American Studies at KU, and she has been teaching university-level history ever since. For the past four years, she has taught at Wichita State University in the Lifelong Learning Program, which is free to older adults. Beginning Feb. 24, she will teach "The Changing Face of War: Ukraine and Sudan."
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Newton Public Library, 223 E. 7th Street,Newton, Kansas, United States
