aired the week of June 22, 2015

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is set in Thailand in the near future when calories are the currency after fossil fuels run dry and the world's food supply has been destroyed by genetic mutations and resistant diseases.  Follow a large cast of characters as they try to survive in this brave new world.  One man is searching for Thailand's fabled seed bank of unmodified seeds, but should such a treasure fall into his hands?