Library EventClimate Fiction Book Club: The Deluge by Stephen Markley

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

04/09/2025 6:30pm 04/09/2025 7:30pm Climate Fiction Book Club: The Deluge by Stephen Markley

Climate Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that will read and discuss fiction to explore imagined futures of the climate crisis.

This month will be a discussion of The Deluge by Stephen Markley. In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.

About the presenter: Sarah Outterson-Murphy has a PhD in English and teaches high school in Cedar Rapids. She lives in Iowa City with her family and her prairie garden.

Cosponsored by City of Iowa City Climate Action & Outreach, Green Iowa Americorps, and the Iowa City Public Library.

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Meeting Room D

Climate Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that will read and discuss fiction to explore imagined futures of the climate crisis.

This month will be a discussion of The Deluge by Stephen Markley. In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.

About the presenter: Sarah Outterson-Murphy has a PhD in English and teaches high school in Cedar Rapids. She lives in Iowa City with her family and her prairie garden.

Cosponsored by City of Iowa City Climate Action & Outreach, Green Iowa Americorps, and the Iowa City Public Library.

If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.

This event is open to the public.

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