Join us on Thursday, March 24, at 7:00PM for a HYBRID book talk with award-winning author, Erica Ferencik!  

Erica will be at the library in person to discuss the origin story of her stunning new novel, Girl in Ice. In the novel, Val, an American linguist, is tasked to journey to a remote climate research center off the coast of Greenland where a girl has thawed from the ice - alive - speaking a language no one understands. Publisher’s Weekly gives Girl in Ice a starred review: “Trenchant details about catastrophic climate change bolster a creative plot featuring authentic characters…Ferencik outdoes Michael Crichton in the convincing way she mixes emotion and science.”

Erica will also share a presentation called JOURNEY TO GREENLAND, showcasing her month-long research trip to this land of almost incomprehensible size and scale. A ring of ominous black mountains jut out of the sea, surrounding a seven-hundred-thousand square mile ice sheet, two miles deep at its thickest, frozen for over three million years. Fin whale and narwhal navigate narrow blue fjords; arctic fox, polar bear and caribou roam the barren hills. This is a place of phenomenal beauty, isolation, wildness and mystery.

Please note: This is a HYBRID event. Erica will give her presentation in person, but the event is also available via Zoom. When registering, please indicate if you will be attending in person or through Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent on the day of the event.

About the author: There is nowhere on earth Erica Ferencik won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, Ferencik writes adventure novels featuring women who brave not only internal struggles but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles, and desolated icescapes. To research The River at Night, Into the Jungle, and her upcoming thriller GIRL IN ICE, which will publish in March 2022, she ventured deep into the remote forests of the Allagash Territory in Northern Maine, rafted the Amazon River in the jungles of Peru, and explored the desolate iceberg-packed fjords of Greenland. 

Her thirty-five years of writing—novels, short stories, essays, ghostwriting, ten years of standup and sketch comedy, as well as dozens of screenplays, and a brief filmmaking stint—was her boots-on-the-ground training. Her work has appeared in Salon and the Boston Globe, as well as on National Public Radio. She lives in MetroWest Boston with her "very tolerant husband and frankly enormous Maine Coon cat." Learn more about Ferencik HERE.