About this Event
Join us for a release event with acclaimed writer Yume Kitasei, discussing her new book Saltcrop. Joining Yume in conversation is NYC book & theatre content creator Steph Pilavin. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister—and Earth’s environmental salvation.
In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother
But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find—and save—her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister's work and the corporations that want what she discovered.
But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister—or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.
Photo credit: Sylvie Rosokoff
Yume Kitasei is the author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. She is Japanese and American and grew up in a space between two cultures—the same space where her stories reside. She lives in Brooklyn with two cats, Boondoggle and Filibuster. Her stories have appeared in publications including New England Review, Catapult, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Baltimore Review.
Steph Pilavin is an NYC book & theatre content creator and performer. She adores otherworldly stories that only sometimes give her nightmares, and fosters a space filled with intentional reading and community care. Steph runs a reading community called Celestial featuring weekend readathons, monthly book clubs, and a constant stream of book recommendations. If you give her an opening to talk about her pets (Persephone the bunny and Artemis the cat), she’ll never stop. You can find her at @starrysteph (TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky) and @starry.steph (Instagram, Threads) and join her book club at celestial.binderybooks.com.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
USD 13.61 to USD 37.98
