About this Event
Third Place Books welcomes local author Lisa Wells to our Seward Park store for the paperback launch of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, a finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required in advance.
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About Believers. . .
"An essential document of our time.” —Charles D'Ambrosio, author of Loitering
We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live?
Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts.
Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing “watershed discipleship” in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming—guns into ploughshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again.
Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward, Believers is able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope.
Lisa Wells is the author, most recently, of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, a finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her debut collection of poetry, The Fix, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Wells lives in south Seattle with the poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson and their son Jude. She received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Arizona, and Yale-NUS where she was a Writing Fellow in Residence. (Photo credit: Jaclyn Campanaro)
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Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.
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Third Place Books, 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, United States
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