![]() ![]() It’s unclear what time period this book is supposed to take place in, because everything seems set in the present, except for the fact that wild animals have all gone extinct, and only a few species remain alive in captivity. We meet her as an adult in Greenland tracking the Arctic tern, one of the last remaining birds in the world. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy takes place in an all-too believable future, but the lessons the characters learn are timeless, and her plot is one that allows us readers to experience the joy of nature no matter where we find it.įranny Stone had a difficult childhood, and finds solace by swimming in the ocean, even in the winter. ![]() Instead they depict the problems we deal with now, set against the backdrop of a flaming dumpster fire of inevitable extinction. These kinds of books are not for the anxious, because many can’t handle another reminder of how screwed our future generations are, yet the environmental degradations are rarely the sole focus of these books. ![]() Typically dystopian (because how could it NOT be?) it describes a future in which the environmental impacts of global warming are no longer escapable by anyone, and life as we now it know has been drastically altered because of the selfish acts of humans that came before. A new genre is emerging in books, and it’s called ‘climate fiction’. ![]()
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