2:00 Listen to Jessi Wakefield as she recommends Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton. This is Jessi Wakefield with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today I would like to recommend the 2021 debut literary novel Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton. Cadie Kessler is an entomologist whose research shows that a beetle is wreaking havoc on the forests of New England, causing the trees to dry up and die and thus become perfect fuel for devastating forest fires. She is utterly consumed by her work and tries desperately to get her findings in front of government officials. Her single-minded endeavor is immediately sidelined when out of the blue, her childhood friend Daniela calls her up telling her “they found him.” Cadie is forced to return home because long-held childhood secrets are threatening to surface with severe consequences.