Big Time: Ben Winters in conversation with Lillian Dabney

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What if time could be taken from us--the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken?

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is thrilled to welcome back author Ben H. Winters, in conversation with Folio librarian Lillian Dabney about his upcoming novel Big Time.

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out…