Event List

Share & Bookmark, Press Enter to show all options, press Tab go to next option
Print

Book Discussion Group

Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh

  • Date: 11/08/2017 9:15 am - 11:00 am  
  • Location: Newport Beach Central Library, Friends Meeting Room
    1000 Avocado Avenue
    Newport Beach, California 92660
  • Introduction: The group is free and reservations are not required. Authors are not present unless noted.
    Everyone is welcome.
 

 

 

 Heat and Light CoverForty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.

Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This story is a dispatch from a forgotten America.

Presented by the Newport Beach Public Library Foundation

More information:  http://www.nbplfoundation.org/

Return to full list >>