CORE SAMPLES launch event at Open Book with Anna Farro Henderson and Speaker Melissa Hortman
October 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm CST
Anna Farro Henderson will join Open Book on Wednesday, October 23 to celebrate the launch of her new book Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood with an evening of art, music, and discussion with Minnesota DFL Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman. Book sales by Magers & Quinn.
Doors at 6:30 p.m., followed by live music and interactive public art. Program 7:00-8:00; music, public art, and book sales from 8:00-8:30.
This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested:
Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples, exploring how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined. Grounded in her experiences as a climate scientist, an environmental policy advisor, and a constant juggler of the many roles and responsibilities of professional moms, Henderson’s eclectic, unconventional essays illuminate the messy, contradictory humanity of our scientific and political institutions.
“A lively and accessible narrative about finding a balance between convictions and love.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Anna Farro Henderson’s Core Samples ought to be required reading for anyone interested in a career in the sciences. Honest and immersive, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how culture (and who crafts it) shapes everything from the sediment the narrator studies to the policies that define climate action today.”—Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
“This is a remarkably honest book—and therefore funny, moving, and eminently worth reading. Anna Farro Henderson’s deep encounters with Big Science and Big Bureaucracy will help you understand why progress on matters of life and death can be so maddeningly slow; her encounters with herself may help you figure out how to live your own life.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
