📖🧶🧩Book | Craft | Puzzle Meetup (Derry, NH) Book: Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei

We will meet as a group at the Derry Public Library. All members are welcome. We will have some snacks and a bit of general social time, with a focused activity hour: to discuss the book, work on a craft (bring your own), assemble a puzzle etc.

The book selected to discuss for this date is Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei (published 9/30/25).

Details on Meeting at the Derry Public Library:
📍Location: 64 E Broadway, Derry, NH 03038
🅿️Parking: Spots directly in front of the library are limited so please make used of the free "East Broadway" Public Parking Lot. The entrance is between the Masonic Temple and CVS on Broadway (1 min walk to the library). We will be in Meeting Room A, which is located on the lower level (off of the Children's Department).

Book Description:
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.

Content Warnings (author approved, on StoryGraph)
Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death
Moderate: Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Vomit, Cursing, Gun violence, Gore, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Dementia, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Chronic illness
Minor: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Mental illness, Addiction, Suicide, Medical content, Bullying