Vermont Reads Community Book Discussion: "The Light Pirate" with Alan Berolzheimer

Join Dr. Alan Berolzheimer, Vermont Humanities scholar, as he leads a community book discussion of the Vermont Reads book The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Named after a catastrophic storm, Wanda is born into a world that’s rapidly changing. Rising sea levels and devastating weather patterns transform her coastal Florida town. As she moves from childhood to adulthood, Wanda adapts to this remade landscape, finding adventure, love, and purpose in a place largely abandoned by civilization. 

Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate  is a meditation on the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness. It considers the dissolution of the human-made world, and helps us see how human connection, adaptability, and a little bit of magic might guide us to a new future.  

Copies of the book are available at the Athenaeum circulation desk to read before the discussion.  

Contact Megan Robinson at mrobinson@stjathenaeum.org or  802-745-1392 for more information. 

Vermont Humanities Scholar Alan Berolzheimer has directed the book publishing program of the Vermont Historical Society since 1998. He is also the project historian and assistant director of The Flow of History, a Teaching American History program providing professional development activities to Vermont teachers. Alan received a Ph.D. in 20th-century U.S. History from the University of Virginia in 1996. He lives in Norwich.

Vermont Reads events are sponsored by Vermont Humanities supported in part by the National Endowment for Humanities.

This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.