Join MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store and the North Adams Public Library for a reading, conversation, and book-signing with Meg Elison on her latest book, Foundling Fathers

This co-presentation takes place at our neighboring North Adams Public Library (74 Church St., North Adams, MA), not at MASS MoCA.

Join MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store and the North Adams Public Library for a free reading, conversation, and book-signing with Meg Elison, whose just-released Foundling Fathers (Tachyon Publications) seamlessly combines science fiction and history with sharp, witty commentary, proving why she is one of speculative fiction’s most exciting voices.

The trouble starts when a curious young man finds a smartphone in his privy. The problem is, it’s supposed to be the year 1750.

The Antediluvian Society — a shadowy cabal of right-wing billionaires — is fed up with a country they cannot fully control or understand. So they have done what any reasonable American patriots would do: clone the Founding Fathers and raise them in secrecy. The plan, unbeknownst to the boys, is for them to restore America to its “original glory.”

Can’t make the event? Pre-order a copy of Foundling Fathers and we’ll get it signed for you.

Meg Elison is the author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Her young adult novel, Find Layla, was named one of Vanity Fair’s best books of the year. Her collection, Big Girl, contains the Locus Award-winning novelette The Pill. Elison has published in outlets including Uncanny, Fangoria, Nightmare, Clarkesworld, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. As an essayist and satirist, she has published nonfiction in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Reactor, and Psychopomp. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She has been a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence, as well as a Fred and Lola Case Writer. Elison is married to the cartoonist Colin Lidston, and they live in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.