We're Interviewing Who?! - The Awoken with Author Katelyn Monroe Howes

Welcome Katelyn Monroe Howes to chat about her new book The Awoken, literally experiencing death, cryogenics, shifting moralities, and two films that inspired it: 12 Monkeys and Children of Men. Also a 15 year+ long secret is revealed that could be friendship breaking, plus wine stemware? More about The Awoken: When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, finds out the devastating news that she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics.  A century later, scientists have indeed discovered how to bring back the dead from preservation, but humanity has been locked in a philosophical battle over the ethics of this new Godlike power, a battle that has turned violent: those who are resurrected, the Awoken, have been declared illegal and are to be shot on sight.  This is the world Alabine is brought into by the Resurrectionists, an underground militia fighting for the rights of the Awoken. Finding herself in a completely unfamiliar world, and one where she is an outsider for the first time in her life, Alabine must figure out how to survive and determine her place in this new world, all the while being haunted by lucid memories of her previous life and the man she loved. More about Katelyn Monroe Howes: She is an LA based award-winning writer and Emmy-nominated documentarian. An Atlanta native and alum of NYU, Katelyn co-founded 1/27 PICTURES, a documentary production company. Her work often tackles systemic inequities and combats uninformed bias as she strives to tell stories that upend the status quo. You can find The Awoken here. Find us at: www.werewatchingwhat.com Katelyn can be found at instagram.com/katelynmhowes, twitter.com/katelynhowes and katelynmhowes.com/ THEDHK can be found at instagram.com/thedhk , twitter.com/thedhk, and facebook.com/thedhkmovies