Time/Date: Wednesday, April 12 at 7pm 

Location: Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA 30030 (followed by drinks at Leon's one block away)

RSVP: Please RSVP with the Georgia Center for the Book https://www.eventbrite.com/e/half-life-of-a-secret-emily-strasser-in-conversation-with-hannah-palmer-tickets-567130290967

Please also RSVP to pbkatlanta@yahoo.com by April 11 with your name, telephone number, and number of people (come alone or bring a friend)

Event Description:

Join your fellow PBK members on for a literary event hosted by the Georgia Center for the Book at the Decatur Library followed by some convivial discussion over drinks at Leon’s just a block away. 

The Georgia Center for the Book presents an evening with authors Emily Strasser and Hannah Palmer in conversation about Strasser’s debut book Half-Life Of A Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History in which she exposes the toxic legacies of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee—political, environmental, and personal—that forever polluted her family, a community, the nation, and the world. Sifting through archives and family memories and traveling to the deserts of Nevada and the living rooms of Hiroshima, she grapples with the far-reaching ramifications of her grandfather's work.

Please note that the Georgia Center for the Book strongly encourages that masks be worn for the duration of this event.