Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and more

Product Code: 8979
ISBN: 9781646220304
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Catapult
Pages: 288
Published Date: 06/14/2022
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Price: $16.95

In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat.

In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens.

As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.


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Contents
Introduction
From This Valley, They Say, You Are Leaving
Starshift
A Brief History of Breathing
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Antarctica
Iowa Bestiary
How Do You Live with Displacement?
Unearthing
Leap
Come Hell
After the Storm
Walking on Water
Mobbing Call
Moments of Being
Until This Snow Reaches the Ocean
The Development
Cougar
Signs and Wonders
Acknowledgments
Text Permissions
About the Contributors
About the Editors

“A vital collection of essays from some of our best writers . . . What editors Amy Brady and Tajja Isen have created is an unforgettable chorus that, when assembled together, act as a piercing rallying cry.” —Katie Yee, Literary Hub

“Inspiring” —Library Journal

“Striking . . . A startling collection of 19 essays documenting the impact of climate change at the individual level, by a geographically diverse group of writers.” —Shelf Awareness

“[A] powerful collection . . . The pieces create a moving mix of resolve and sorrow, painting a vivid picture of an era in which ‘climate change is altering life on Earth at an unprecedented rate,’ but ‘the majority of us can still remember when things were more stable.’ The result is a poignant ode to a changing planet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“In focusing on how climatic shifts have been felt, mourned, and protested, this essay collection, edited by Brady and Isen, sketches an ecological transition point for humanity: a moment when older adults can recall a more secure past but not avoid confronting an increasingly ominous and insecure future . . . The book presents a diverse portrait of environmental awareness and distress. A collection of testimonials, by turns disheartening and inspiring, on the radical climate transformations now well underway.” —Kirkus Reviews

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