Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers discusses his new novel 'Bewilderment'

In his new novel, award-winning author Richard Powers probes an essential question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?Called an “ecological parable,” Powers’ latest book, “Bewilderment,” tells the story of a widowed astrobiologist as he struggles to raise his precocious son alone, in the midst of our all-too-real climate crisis. “We really are in need of a change in cultural consciousness,” Powers told MPR News host Kerri Miller. “Or we need a new way of thinking about ourselves, on the Earth. Not as something separate from the nonhuman, but as an integrated neighbor, situated in a real place, not one that we're trying to master and dominate.”  Guest: Richard Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. His latest book is “Bewilderment.”Use the audio player above to listen to their conversation.Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts , or RSS.