Above the Ether: A Novel

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A mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world very like our own, for readers of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood. In this prequel to Eric Barnes’s acclaimed cli-fi novel The City Where We Once Lived, six sets of characters move through a landscape and a country just beginning to show the signs of cataclysmic change. A father and his young children fleeing a tsunami after a massive earthquake in the Gulf. A woman and her husband punishing themselves without relent for the loss of both their sons to addiction, while wildfires slowly burn closer to their family home. A brilliant investor, assessing opportunity in the risk to crops, homes, cities, industries, and infrastructure, working in the silent comfort of her office sixty floors up in the scorching air. A doctor and his wife stuck in a refugee camp for immigrants somewhere in a southern desert. Two young men working the rides for a roadside carnival, one escaping a brutal past, the other a racist present. The manager of a chain of nondescript fast-food restaurants in a city ravaged by the relentless wind.. While every night the news alternates images of tsunami destruction with the baseball scores, the characters converge on a city where the forces of change have already broken a city half abandoned, with one part left to be scavenged as the levee system protecting it slowly fails until, in their vehicles on the highway that runs through it, they witness the approach of what looks to be just one more violent storm.

Additional information

Weight 0.44 kg
Dimensions 2.8 × 15.24 × 9 cm
Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

240

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1628729988

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