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Violence
Some
Storm violence and some deaths; the slow violence of climate collapse; nothing graphic
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Adult relationships as Wren grows older; nothing explicit
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Watching civilization contract around a childhood; grief over what is being lost; the loneliness of being one of the people who stays when everyone else leaves
What this book is about
Wren is born during a catastrophic hurricane at the exact moment the Florida power grid fails. She grows up as the state slowly retreats — as storms grow more frequent, as people leave, as civilization contracts around her. The novel follows Wren from childhood into adulthood across a Florida that is being reclaimed by water and wilderness. Lily Brooks-Dalton's climate fiction is neither apocalyptic nor hopeful in conventional terms — it is a careful, beautiful novel about what it means to grow up as the world you were promised dissolves.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
climate grief and loss of normalcy
a child's experience of ongoing crisis and isolation
themes of civilizational collapse
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