A new novel by Patrick Gabridge,

Patrick's Bio:

         Patrick Gabridge grew up in central Illinois, prime tornado territory. “Tornado sirens were very much a part of our lives, every summer. I remember hiding in our basement as the skies turned green, and driving past overturned trailer homes. I was always fascinated with tornadoes.”

Gabridge is a white writer who’s been exploring the topic of race for years. When he and his wife adopted their daughter, who is black, more than ten years ago, it had a concrete impact on his work. “I had the story for Tornado Siren, but after adopting our daughter, I knew that I wanted the main character to be a strong woman of color. It felt like there wasn’t much fiction that featured black woman scientists. There still isn’t.” Gabridge is an instructor for White People Challenging Racism, in Cambridge, and is actively involved with other social justice organizations.. His most recent stage play, Pieces of Whitey, a comedy about well-meaning white people, played to sold out crowds in Boston.

Gabridge’s connection to science and scientists runs deep. The son of a research biologist, he attended MIT to study computer science. About halfway through, he took writing and filmmaking courses and decided to switch his focus to writing. “Science was part of the air in my house while I was growing up. I spent half my childhood in my dad’s lab, dissecting hamsters or looking through microscopes.” Most of his work for the stage and screen has focused on science and scientists, including the award-winning plays, Reading the Mind of God, about the astronomers Kepler and Tycho, and Blinders, a satire on science and the media.