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Reading: Mitzi Zilka: Water Fire Steam
April 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeAnnie Bloom’s welcomes Pacific Northwest author Mitzi Zilka for an in-store reading from her novel, Water Fire Steam.
About Water Fire Steam:
The year is 1884. Rolla Alan Jones, an ambitious dreamer fresh out of an East Coast engineering school, is commissioned to design and build the first water system in Spokane Falls, Washington, a booming town of twenty-thousand. He is everyone’s golden boy for five years until the city burns down on August 4, 1889. The once-celebrated engineer is scapegoated for the catastrophe, alleging his system yielded inadequate water pressure. Asked to resign, betrayed by his friends, shunned by the community, and abandoned by his pregnant wife and three-year-old son, Rolla must find the strength to reinvent himself or return to New York as an abject failure. Based on true events, Water Fire Steam is a story of forgiveness and redemption for anyone who has ever had to claw their way back from an unwarranted accusation.