The Common Press is proud to launch D. K. McCutchen’s new book ‘Electric Ice,’ the prequel to the award-winning ‘Jellyfish Dreaming,’ on Thursday 25th July from 6:30 pm - 9 pm. Join us for an insightful discussion, reading and book signing from Leapfrog Press and Can of Worms.
- Doors open at 6:30pm
- Discussion and Readings from 7pm
- Book signing from 8pm
About the Book
Jack, a 200-year-old intersex street kid, has lived countless lives, and he remembers them all. He remembers our world. He also remembers the massive tidal wave that erased it and everyone he knew. He’s seen a world blanketed in never-ending ice, and he’s witnessed the Great Garbage Ocean spew plastic and jellyfish onto the shores below his university’s aging experimental facility.
Yet Jack also remembers love. As he grapples with the curse of survival while humanity teeters on the brink of extinction, he remembers the family he found trekking across frozen lakes, through still-standing monuments to the past, and over roaring waterfalls to reach the salt sea. He remembers the university researchers, Charlie and Leo, who loved him and the town’s other orphans as much as they did each other. And he remembers Joon, his love – another ageless “Warehouse kid” whose identity is as unique and undefinable as Jack’s.
A post-apocalyptic, post-gender series, Jellyfish Dreaming and its prequel, Electric Ice, pulse with plot twists, fierce determination, and unrelenting hope, navigating unrecognizable worlds with unmistakable messages of love and survival in all its forms.
About the Author – D. K. McCutchen
After a decade of sailing the world with researchers in summer and assisting a glassblower in winter, D. K. McCutchen teaches writing for
College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, and is an Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program. Currently they
live on a river with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi, and write LGBTQIA-friendly, gender-bender, post-apocalyptic speculative
fiction.
Books include JELLYFISH DREAMING, winner of a Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, and WHALE ROAD, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and Pushcart nominee about chasing whales through the South Pacific. JELLYFISH DREAMING's companion novel, ELECTRIC ICE, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant, releasing this July.
NOTE: Please note this event is taking place in the bookshop, which is wheelchair accessible but unfortunately due to construction work on site, our wheelchair accessible toilets are not available.