Welcome to our online reading and discussion group! The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!
This month's book: 'Heavy Water: A Poem for Chernobyl' by Mario Petrucci
About the book:
"On April 26 1986 at 1:23 am, in the cool dark of an early Saturday, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear complex exploded.
Heavy Water is based on eyewitness accounts of the Chernobyl disaster. Petrucci takes up the challenge confronting society in every age: to attempt the difficult task of exploring its most terrible events. His poem unites the concerns of artist, humanitarian and historian at a common source: the desire not to forget. Heavy Water stands to remind us that those who have been exposed to the invisible should never become so."
For more info/ reviews, please visit: https://www.mariopetrucci.com/heavywater.htm
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