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Author Joanne Hart urges climate storytelling at Peabody Institute Library reading
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Gloucester-based author Joanne Hart read from her novel Arroyo Circle and discussed climate fiction, research methods and narrative strategies for explaining climate change during a Friends of the Peabody Institute Library event.
Joanne Hart, a Gloucester-based novelist, read from Arroyo Circle and told the Friends of the Peabody Institute Library annual meeting that fiction and narrative are vital tools for helping people grasp the scale and human effects of the climate crisis.
"Libraries are like my happy place. They're the best institution that we have in America right now," Hart said. She told the audience that climate or eco-fiction allows writers to put the scientific detail into characters’ lives: "the narrative, meaning, like, in a novel... is probably the best way for people…
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