now please welcome erika bolstad and lydia caseling. [applause] >> hello.hter] how arehe you feeling in. >> good, good. yeah. >> it's a a big day, right? we have an amazing crowd here. i'm going to scoot this, if i may, and c-span can yell at me if i -- [laughter] thank you. so erika's going to start with a reading. i'm so happy to see such a great crowd here for this book. it's an amazing book. it weaves together so many different strands in a way that i still don't quite understand how sheo managed to do that, ad i'm excited to talk with her about that. and so if you haven't bought it already are, i really encourage you to pick one up at the end of this event because you will learn a lot and be moved and surprised, i think. so would you like to start with a reading in. >> yeah, that'd be great. i'm going to start with chapter one, part one. and every chapter of this book startses with the price of oil wherever i was at the time of the reporting or the research. fractured, december 2009, north dakota crude, $6 # 3.96 per parallel. her name was anna joseph