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For fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me, this richly imaginative, immersive, and "profound" (Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point) novel is the electrifying story of a family in crisis that unfolds against the backdrop of our near future.

Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save…

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This was another book about climate change but also about living life in a world that is changing and has changed. It feels split between those who want to live their life and are happy to live their life and those who don't feel living is good enough—they must take action instead. But it also shows that solving one problem doesn't mean you're solving every problem—demonstrated through the lens of a broken family and the length the father and daughter will go to find their missing piece.

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