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Jellyfish Dreaming - Local Author D.K. McCutchen

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July 29th, 6:30 p.m. at the Arms Library

Leapfrog Press' Global Fiction Prize winner, D.K. McCutchen, 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 a post-apocalyptic, gender-bender, coming-of-age story contemplating the tenacity of life and capacity of hope, the last port Town beside the Great Garbage Ocean draws Fisherfolk from a dozen races and places to the Trash Café. On the cliffs above, in an aging University, Jack floats in a tank of poisonous Jellyfish, drifting through fragmented memories. Like the immortal jellyfish Turitopsis, the lonely, 200-year-old teenager resets under stress, never making it to adulthood.

But two Uni researchers believe the Town’s tough, ageless "warehouse kids" are humanity's last hope. Even Jack barely remembers the environmental catastrophes that caused mass extinctions and changed the town’s seemingly youngest survivors into something new and strange. Then Jack falls for his best friend Joon, a tsunami of trash lands on the Town, and old bigotries erupt into violence. Jack surprises himself by racing to protect those he loves from a madman trying to destroy the fledgling inheritors of a dying world -- but at a cost.

The Arms Library is handicapped accessible via the lower level entrance in back of the library. Our author's talk will be in the lower level.