fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Metcalf Institute. She lives with her husband and son in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
Riassunto
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
“The Quickening is a book of hope.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky
An astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and community.
In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: the ominous Thwaites Glacier at Antarctica’s western edge. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans. And with them is author Elizabeth Rush, who seeks, among other things, the elusive voice of the ice.
Rush shares her story of a groundbreaking voyage punctuated by both the sublime—the tangible consequences of our melting icecaps; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites—and the everyday moments of living and working in community. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for the human and more-than-human worlds. Along the way, Rush takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to create and celebrate life in a time of radical planetary change?
What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting and heroism but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. Urgent, brave, and vulnerable, The Quickening is an absorbing account of hope from one of our most celebrated and treasured contemporary authors.
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Indie coop available until pub day: Buy 5+, get $25
Major national publicity campaign coordinated by premier publicist Whitney Peeling at Broadside PR, who has led publicity campaigns for Elizabeth Kolbert, Clint Smith and Mary Roach
Major galley campaign, with more than 300 galleys available for sales force, major media, poetry media, women’s media, booksellers, and librarians; digital galleys available for download on Edelweiss
Major bookseller galley and Indie Next campaign
Major libraries galley and Library Reads campaign
Big-mouth send of finished books to Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, John Freeman, Maggie Smith and others
Featured title in the Galley Room and Rep Picks presentations at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle
Featured author at PNBA’s Fall Tradeshow
Newsletter promotion via the publisher to readers, sales, and academic lists of more than 40,000 contacts
Advertising in Shelf Awareness and with PNBA, with Goodreads giveaways
Major launch hosted in New York City, with hybrid touring and events in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Rhode Island and Minneapolis
