Award-Winning
Author Offers Lessons from Fukushima
at Unity of
Livonia
As
part of her 10-day book tour of the Great Lakes region, author Cecile Pineda
will share her stirring insight of the nuclear industry with metro Detroit
audiences on Tuesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at Unity of Livonia. Ms. Pineda’s latest book, Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima
Step by Step, is a provocative and heart-wrenching exploration of the
nuclear industry and the ongoing impact of the meltdown of three reactors at
the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan on March 11, 2011. An update on the consequences of the tragic
event will be a major focus of Pineda’s talk.
Her book tour coincides with the second anniversary of the Fukushima
nuclear disaster.
Published
on the one-year anniversary of the disaster, the book, in Pineda’s own words,
is “a crazy quilt of multiple voices, pieced together day-by-day.” At times lyrical, meditative or even comical
– yet always disturbing – it reflects her anguished attempt to come to terms
with Fukishima’s catastrophic consequences to the entire planet. “We are beyond the place where available
technology can address what is ongoing and probably will be ongoing for many,
many decades,” says Pineda.
Published
by WingsPress, copies of Ms. Pineda’s newest book will be available for signing
and sale at the Unity of Livonia engagement.
The Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, U.S. Chapter is
sponsoring Cecile’s Great Lakes Tour.
Cecile
Pineda has been an anti-war activist from early life. Her novels, all available from WingsPress.com,
have been critically acclaimed, with Face,
winning the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal – a record for first
fiction, as well as the Sue Kaufman Prize and a National Book Award
nomination. Her picaresque novel, The Love Queen of the Amazon, written
with an NEA Fiction Fellowship, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.
The
local group, Citizens for Peace, is sponsoring her stop in Livonia, along with
the Alliance to Halt Fermi 3; Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship & Education
Project; IHM Justice, Peace and Sustainability Office; Nukewatch; Peace Action
of MI; Sierra Club (Southeast MI); Swords Into Plow Shares Peace Center &
Gallery; Women’s Action for New Directions (Southeast MI); and Women’s
International League for Peace & Freedom (Detroit). Local activists invite the public to this
free event. For more information call Colleen at 734-425-0079.
