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Listen to Jessi Wakefield as she recommends The Heap by Sean Adams.
This is Jessi Wakefield with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today I would like to recommend the unique and quirky All Iowa Reads Finalist, The Heap by Sean Adams.
Des Moines native and Iowa Writer’s Workshop Alumnus, Sean Adams has created a truly eccentric novel about the rise and fall of the towering Las Verticales, a high-rise housing complex standing over 500 stories tall. The Vert, as it s known, is a marvel of modern architecture. A place that is more a city to itself than a building, with unconventional urban planning. That is until one day, the building suddenly collapses into a pile of rubble now known as The Heap.
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Listen to Jessi Wakefield as she recommends Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton. This is Jessi Wakefield with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today I would like to recommend the 2021 debut literary novel Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton. Cadie Kessler is an entomologist whose research shows that a beetle is wreaking havoc on the forests of New England, causing the trees to dry up and die and thus become perfect fuel for devastating forest fires. She is utterly consumed by her work and tries desperately to get her findings in front of government officials. Her single-minded endeavor is immediately sidelined when out of the blue, her childhood friend Daniela calls her up telling her “they found him.” Cadie is forced to return home because long-held childhood secrets are threatening to surface with severe consequences.