Lit Youngstown's Food for Thought book discussion each month, Sept.-May, at 5:30pm on the 2nd Thursday at the Main Library, 305 Wick Ave., in the 2nd floor meeting room. Haven't read the book yet? No worries.
The November title is Trash Lands by Alison Stine. This book is available at the Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County, and POP! Arts, Book, Culture via Bookshop.
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency.
In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has turned into, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as unofficial mayor. When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose a future for herself?
Upcoming titles:
December (creative nonfiction) If This Were Fiction by Jill Christman
January (novel) Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
February (memoir) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
March (travel writing) Bad Lands by Jonathan Raban
April (poetry) West: a Translation by Paisley Rekdal
May (travel writing) Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horowitz
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