Northshire Bookstore and Marble House Project Event: TIm Weed and Chard deNiord on “The Afterlife Project”

(Manchester Center, VT) On Saturday, June 7at 6 pm, Northshire Bookstore is proud to host author and musician Tim Weed in celebration of his new novel The Afterlife Project, in conversation with former Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord. 

A finalist for the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, The Afterlife Project encompasses a desperate quest for the key to the future of humanity, an impossible love story, and a search for meaning across the inconceivable vastness of geological time.With humanity facing imminent extinction, Centauri Project scientists use technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth’s future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches for evidence of remnant populations. He has a protocol to follow and is determined to do so to the bitter end–though he knows he’s probably searching in vain, stranded on an empty planet silently orbiting the sun.

Meanwhile, back in 2068 AD, a devastating hyperpandemic has quelled all talk of interstellar travel and thrown the future of humanity into grave doubt. Four surviving members of the Centauri team board a vintage solar-powered sailing yacht for a harrowing journey in search of a second test subject. Their destination is a small volcanic island north of Sicily rumored to harbor that rarest of creatures: a woman capable of getting pregnant. 

“Smart, achingly beautiful, and (yes) important: a gripping novel of climate cataclysm with a cast of characters I cared about deeply.”  —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Flight Attendant

“The Afterlife Project isn’t just a story about the end of the world as we know it–it’s an exploration of beauty, and love, and hope in the darkness. If you were a fan of Cloud Atlas, you won’t want to miss this one.” —Janelle Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of What Kind of Paradise

Tim Weed is the author of A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, Will Poole’s Island, and The Afterlife Project. A former international travel guide, Weed serves on Salve Regina University’s core faculty for the Newport MFA in creative writing and is a cofounder of the Cuba Writers Program. 

Chard deNiord served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2015-2019, and is the author of six books of poetry, including In My Unknowing, Interstate, The Double Truth and Asleep In The Fire. He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets.

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