Pages and Pastries Book Discussion: Migrations

Pages & Pastries is back in person and new members are ALWAYS welcome! Check out an ebook or audiobook in Libby/Overdrive and/or Hoopla, or stop by the Adult Services Desk on the second floor to pick up a copy (quantities are limited). Questions? Email Katie at  kallan@orlandparklibrary.org or call 708-428-5150 for more information.

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

McConaghy’s transfixing, gorgeously precise novel is propelled by Franny’s desperate effort to follow what may be the last flock of Arctic terns on their perilous migration from Greenland, where she finesses her way onto a fishing boat, to Antarctica. Alternating chapters dart back to gather the scattered puzzle pieces of her traumatic past. The scenes on board the Saghani, with its intriguing outcast crew, are psychologically intense and physically harrowing. McConaghy’s evocation of a world bereft of wildlife is piercing; Franny’s otherworldliness is captivating, and her extreme misadventures and anguished secrets are gripping. Some may find this darkly enrapturing work of ecofiction too heavily plotted, but all the violence, shock, and loss Franny navigates do aptly, and unnervingly, foreshadow a possible environmental apocalypse. (Booklist)