Book description
A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community
The world is nothing like it once was: climate disasters have wracked the continent, causing food shortages, ending…
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2 authors picked The Annual Migration Of Clouds as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There's so much story packed into this novella - it's quite a feat! It was a lovely pairing of lovely writing and imagery with a plot that kept me turning pages instead of the navel-gazing one sometimes finds in more literary leaning books.
Another short novel about people forging community in a world rendered almost unrecognizable by climate collapse and the devastating consequences of environmental injustice, this one provides a close focus on what it's like to be young, lost, and angry in the ruins of choices made before you were born. Nobody trying to live forward in these uncertain times should be without that perspective. As a parent struggling to come to terms with sending a kid out to grow up in this world, I know I've been desperate for it, and Mohamed's intensely close point of view makes it impossible not…
From Michael's list on community-building amid the ruins of capitalism.
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