Reading Across Rhode Island Kickoff Event: Rising, By Elizabeth Rush

Rhode Island Center for the Book is kicking off the 2020 statewide read, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, with a lively discussion with the book’s author, Elizabeth Rush, Janet Coit, the director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, and Mark Searles, NBC 10 Chief Meteorologist. The event will also feature a preview performance by Living Literature.

Tickets are $20 and include one paperback copy of the book. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Kate Lentz at kate@ribook.org.

“What an incredible honor it is to have RISING chosen as Rhode Island’s One Book, One State community read selection for 2020. Five years ago, my husband and I relocated to the Ocean State, and it is here that I finished writing this book. During that time, the climate crisis has heated up calling us to new conversations about what it means to be a human on planet earth today. I so look forward to sharing RISING and the conversations it will spark with you all.”

–Elizabeth Rush