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Jellyfish Dreaming - Local Author D.K. McCutchen

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Leapfrog Press' Global Fiction Prize winner reads from gender-bender-post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction, JELLYFISH DREAMING, at the ARMS Library, Sat. July 29th at 6:30pm. (Jellyfish will be served & books signed)

"In the JELLYFISH DREAMING, beside the Atlantic-Coast-that-was, near an aging University, hard Fisher people from a dozen races and places fetch up in the Trash Cafe, last stop before the Great Garbage Ocean. The ocean coughs up jellyfish and plastic rubbish these days. But Jack remembers things no one else does, like birds and frogs. The lonely, 200-year-old teenager never quite makes it to adulthood before resetting, like the immortal jellyfish Turitopsis. Then Jack falls for Joon, one of the tough street kids who can choose their own gender. Even Jack barely remembers the environmental catastrophes that caused mass extinctions and changed the town’s youngest survivors. But when old bigotries erupt into violence, Jack surprises himself by racing to outwit a madman trying to destroy the fledgling inheritors of a dying world—even if the cost is his not-quite-immortal life."n Prize winner reads from gender-bender-post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction, JELLYFISH DREAMING, at the ARMS Library, Sat. July 29th at 6:30pm. (Jellyfish will be served & books signed)

You can also read an interview with the author at The Mossy Skull