Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger visits Gibson's Bookstore to present her groundbreaking work of popular science, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.” (The New Yorker)

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History

“A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass