Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 6:00-7:00pm MST

Join debut author Katherine E. Standefer for a discussion of her new book, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life at The King’s English Bookshop of Salt Lake City, Utah. This event is co-sponsored by the SADS Foundation (Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation).

What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir, Standefer tells the story of her troubled relationship to her own ICD, from her harrowing experience in the American healthcare system to her global journey to the mines and factories where the minerals in her device may have originated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to death, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.

Lightning Flowers was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Fall 2020, and one of Kirkus Reviews’ 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020. It has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, the goop podcast, and in People Magazine, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School for Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Terry Tempest Williams called the book “a riveting debut.”

This free, virtual event will take place on Crowdcast and you must register here to participate. Buy your copy of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life from The King's English Bookshop and receive an autographed bookplate, while supplies last. (Please note King’s English can only ship books within the US.)