Sea Change: an Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
It would be easy to write a story about climate change that was depressing and fatalistic but author Christina Gerhardt manages to make something far more challenging. The land may inundate or disappear altogether but the people who live there will not. Each chapter ends with a poem written by one of these imperiled islands' residents and the book speaks to a changing reality, an uncertain future but also the determination of human beings as they struggle to maintain their way of life.
It would be easy to write a story about climate change that was depressing and fatalistic but author Christina Gerhardt manages to make something far more challenging. The land may inundate or disappear altogether but the people who live there will not. Each chapter ends with a poem written by one of these imperiled islands' residents and the book speaks to a changing reality, an uncertain future but also the determination of human beings as they struggle to maintain their way of life.
It would be easy to write a story about climate change that was depressing and fatalistic but author Christina Gerhardt manages to make something far more challenging. The land may inundate or disappear altogether but the people who live there will not. Each chapter ends with a poem written by one of these imperiled islands' residents and the book speaks to a changing reality, an uncertain future but also the determination of human beings as they struggle to maintain their way of life.
