[ONLINE] Let's Read A Friend of the Earth

Our May selection is A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle (he/him).

Our next meetings:

• June: Open book chat
• July: Open book chat
• August: Yearly Town Hall

From Penguin Publishing Group:
It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed, and most mammals—not to mention fish, birds, and frogs—are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star’s private menagerie that “only a mother could love”—scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.

It wasn’t always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. As a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, just when he’s trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life.

Blending idealism and satire, A Friend of the Earth addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.

Penguin Random House:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/332662/a-friend-of-the-earth-by-tc-boyle/

Bookshop.org:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-friend-of-the-earth-t-c-boyle/11627665?ean=9780141002057

Barnes & Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-friend-of-the-earth-t-c-boyle/1101075098?ean=9780141002057