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Reading Club

Event Type: Book Discussion
Age Group(s): Adults
Date: 9/12/2017
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 12:00 PM
Description:
 Discuss Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh
. Discussion questions and meeting dates are available in our Reading Club booklet at the Customer Service Desk. Funded by the Fountain Hills Friends of the Library.
Library: Fountain Hills Branch    Library location
Location: Conference Room
Other Information:
 Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.

To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.
Contact: Karen