This post was written by Rosanne Catron, 2010 Information Center & Bookstore Manager.
Join us in celebrating the release of David Carle’s new book, MONO, on Thursday, December 9 from 4:00–6:00pm at the Mono Lake Committee.
David Carle’s many non-fiction books explore relationships between people and the California environment. Now, through historical fiction, he enters the minds and hearts of a generation shaped by the Great Depression and facing the threat of world war. MONO confronts the question, ‘What were they thinking back then, as choices were made that endangered Mono Lake and its tributary streams?’
Between 1934 and 1941, the City of Los Angeles sent 2,000 men to work on aqueducts and an 11-mile tunnel beneath volcanic craters in the Mono Basin. MONO tells the story of biologist Justin Hearth as he surveys the waters of the Mono Lake watershed, falls in love with that landscape, and also with Alisa Stohler. Her family was forced from a farm in the Owens Valley in 1930 and is now caught up in changes brought by the distant city’s unending thirst for growth.
David Carle has written a number of engaging books relating to science and natural history. On December 9 the public has the opportunity to meet David Carle and purchase his newest book, as well as a selection of his old favorites. Come to the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore anytime between 4:00 and 6:00pm to meet the author and mingle. Light refreshments will be served.
