Altar to an Erupting Sun: Chuck Collins in Conversation with Frida Berrigan

Monday Aug 14, 7pm

Brooks Memorial Library First Floor Reading Room

Come celebrate the publication of the novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, by Chuck Collins, in conversation with Frida Berrigan.

About the Book

Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her “party in a box” and “a weaver of people and movements.” Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later, Rae’s friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act.

Speakers

Frida Berrigan is activist, urban farmer, and columnist who lives in New London, CT, and author It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals And Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood”

Chuck Collins from Guilford is a campaigner and storyteller and author of Altar to an Erupting Sun (Green Writer Press). His books include: Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.), and Economic Apartheid in America. Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.