In person at the library, join author Erica Ferencik on Tuesday, March 12 at 7pm, when she will 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.

This program is sponsored by the Billerica Public Library Foundation as part of the Foundation Program Series.