In this episode of #ICTBC, and in honor of Kansas Day, local author Jason Quinn Malott joins us to discuss his novel The Evolution of Shadows and his writing process. (Find a copy at a library near you: http://catalog.wichitalibrary.org/cat/isbn/9781932961843) #ICTBC is Wichita Public Library's online book club.

 

The first public reading of The evolution of Shadows
In July of 1995, the news photographer Gray Banick disappeared into the Bosnian war zone and doing so took away pieces of the hearts of three people who loved him: Emil Todorović, his interpreter and friend; Jack MacKenzie, his mentor who taught Gray to hold his camera steady between himself and the worst that war presents; and Lian Zhao, who didn't have the strength to love him as he wanted her to.