June Meeting: SHOCKED EARTH

For June we'll be reading SHOCKED EARTH by Saskia Goldschmidt, translated by Antoinette Fawcett!

Femke, her mother Trijn and her grandfather have very different ideas about how to run their family farm. Tensions between mother and daughter are growing; Femke wants to switch to sustainable growing principles, while her mother considers this an attack on tradition. To make matters worse, their home province of Groningen is experiencing a series of earthquakes caused by a gas extraction operation near their farm. While the cracks and splinters in their farmhouse increase, the authorities and the state-owned gas company refuse to offer the local farming community any help.

In SHOCKED EARTH, Saskia Goldschmidt investigates what it means to have your principles at odds with your closest kin. And how to keep standing when the world as you know it is slowly falling apart.

Please consider obtaining your copy from one of Madison's wonderful independent bookstores or from [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/p/books/shocked-earth-saskia-goldschmidt/17709428?ean=9781912235681&next=t)! There are also used copies available from several online retailers.