Join us for the initial launch of Sally Ashton’s newly-released book, Listening to Mars. This afternoon book reading and signing will take place in Montalvo’s historic Villa, where visitors will be able to listen to excerpts from the book, with signed copies available for purchase. Beer, wine and soda will also be available.
Listening to Mars (Cornerstone Press, 2024) serves as a record of our national transit, one a journey from there—before the COVID-19 pandemic—to here—a new now. Our microscopes pinpoint a virus; our telescopes search the edges of the Universe; we look, as we always have, to the heavens for comfort and clarity. Underlying our global social turmoil is the environmental emergency we find ourselves facing, and the irony of seeking new worlds while degrading if not destroying our own. With empathy and precision, Sally Ashton moves through the time of our confinement and an increasingly fractured world, trying to tell the story, to bear witness, to find a way through. Trying to find the glints of light in the journey we are still traveling.