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Warmer #6
At the Bottom of New Lake
A girl growing up in Cape Cod explores the collectible debris of a once-perfect world she’s too young to remember. But as the past resurfaces, so do old questions about her place in society.
To Chinese American teenager Chuntao, New Lake is a beautiful haven where she can hunt for treasures once swallowed up by a big flood. But when she’s caught scavenging by her biology teacher, a woman whose own past has been swept away, Chuntao is faced with an imponderable Which world was better—the ideal one she never knew or the destroyed one that now belongs to her?
Sonya Larson’s At the Bottom of New Lake is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
To Chinese American teenager Chuntao, New Lake is a beautiful haven where she can hunt for treasures once swallowed up by a big flood. But when she’s caught scavenging by her biology teacher, a woman whose own past has been swept away, Chuntao is faced with an imponderable Which world was better—the ideal one she never knew or the destroyed one that now belongs to her?
Sonya Larson’s At the Bottom of New Lake is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
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First published October 30, 2018
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June 17, 2022
New York Times global climate correspondent Somini Sengupta has written, “Climate change is one of the most profound inequities of the modern era. Those who did not cause most of the problem are feeling most of the impact.”
Author Sonya Larson provided a short story for the Audible Warmer Collection, called “At the Bottom of New Lake”. Although Sengupta was referring to poor countries such as India in the above statement, Larson uses that idea for this 49-minute story. This could also be a classified as a Carbon-footprint shaming story as well!
I enjoyed this more than others because I “got” what she was trying to convey in such a short amount of time. It’s not easy to provide a clear story in such duration.
PS, not sure why other reviewers felt the narrator was irritating, but I did not!
Author Sonya Larson provided a short story for the Audible Warmer Collection, called “At the Bottom of New Lake”. Although Sengupta was referring to poor countries such as India in the above statement, Larson uses that idea for this 49-minute story. This could also be a classified as a Carbon-footprint shaming story as well!
I enjoyed this more than others because I “got” what she was trying to convey in such a short amount of time. It’s not easy to provide a clear story in such duration.
PS, not sure why other reviewers felt the narrator was irritating, but I did not!
December 27, 2023
Short Story
Short story of what? One minute it’s about a school girl diving for items lost when the beach houses were flooded and lost under the water. Then she’s in class writing her congressman about climate change and arguing with her teacher. Awful. Made no sense to me.
Short story of what? One minute it’s about a school girl diving for items lost when the beach houses were flooded and lost under the water. Then she’s in class writing her congressman about climate change and arguing with her teacher. Awful. Made no sense to me.
December 10, 2018
Climate change is too important for tripe
If this is what authors are writing about climate change, is it any wonder that no one cares?! Do better!
If this is what authors are writing about climate change, is it any wonder that no one cares?! Do better!
December 1, 2018
Cape Cod. Rising waters have completely changed the area...submerging beach front mansions and creating a new body of water that teenager Chuntao calls New Lake. She dives into the lake, exploring the underwater ruins and recovering items from the long abandoned properties. Chuntao doesn't remember the decadent houses and wealthy residents, the tourists and the lifestyle that used to be a part of Cape Cod. She just knows she now has access to the beach and feels what she finds underwater belongs to her. The sea belongs to everyone now...not just a privileged few. Even with the changes that the flood brought, Chantao still has doubts about herself and her place among her peers. She doesn't feel set apart by class or her Chinese heritage...but by her awkwardness and the fact that she's a lesbian. She's unsure of herself and trying to find her place in the world....as we all do. She doesn't remember things as they used to be....but her biology teacher does. Her teacher remembers the homes and residents that are now gone and feels it's disrespectful to dive in New Lake or recover items from under the water. One sees the world and its changes as her reality....and the other sees it as a destroyed ideal. How do you find a safe spot in a world so changed?
At the Bottom of New Lake is the sixth story in the Warmer Collection from Audible/Amazon Originals. I liked this story better than most in this collection. Each story deals with climate change....both environmental and social. I didn't like most of selections in this collection. I think in trying to combine the subjects of climate change/global disaster with changes in social/sexual roles is just too much. For me most of these stories are just trying too hard to fit that new age PC/inclusive climate in with a disaster global warming theme. I understand the attempt....the idea of mixing global warming with Global Warming is interesting. But, a bit lack luster in the actual follow through. Only one story left in this collection....and so far, it's just been a dud for me.
Middle of the road rating for this one. I enjoyed the story....but in the end it really didn't have any emotional impact for me. Mixing disaster with social change just didn't work for me. I can't feel empowered/enlightened and doomed/threatened at the same time. Strange, uncomfortable mix.
At the Bottom of New Lake is the sixth story in the Warmer Collection from Audible/Amazon Originals. I liked this story better than most in this collection. Each story deals with climate change....both environmental and social. I didn't like most of selections in this collection. I think in trying to combine the subjects of climate change/global disaster with changes in social/sexual roles is just too much. For me most of these stories are just trying too hard to fit that new age PC/inclusive climate in with a disaster global warming theme. I understand the attempt....the idea of mixing global warming with Global Warming is interesting. But, a bit lack luster in the actual follow through. Only one story left in this collection....and so far, it's just been a dud for me.
Middle of the road rating for this one. I enjoyed the story....but in the end it really didn't have any emotional impact for me. Mixing disaster with social change just didn't work for me. I can't feel empowered/enlightened and doomed/threatened at the same time. Strange, uncomfortable mix.
March 14, 2019
This is a powerful message about global warming encased in a delightful tale about a young Chinese refugee.
Her new world includes a lake formed due to rising sea levels which overwhelmed this part of the coast and drowned expensive beachside properties.
When her biology teacher sees her playing in the lake she becomes incensed and warns her off due to toxic pollution and in her mind disrespecting the past, her past as a child she’d enjoyed the rich summer houses along the beach.
The teacher feeling that the young people don’t get it abandons her lesson plans to focus on greenhouse gases and the threat to the planet; she seeks to demonstrate to her class that it is their future at risk.
This short story is beautifully told and demonstrates the hypocrisy of many rich adults / countries.
I loved that the class knew more about Chuntao than Mrs Fletcher. That the poor have a much lower carbon footprint while the rich salve their consciences with knowledge of statistical data.
I found this analogy between these divided kids and their tutor, the adult almost a parable of the mess we face unless both sides can be brought together.
The writing is bright and has a lively pace that brings the reader fully into the story.
Chuntao is a wonderful character unsure in her peer relationships but a feisty foe to Mrs Fletcher. The use of images she conjures up which the author to her thinking is smart and creative:
“My voice: I hated the sound of it, earnest and dumb as an adult’s, like a bumbling bug that doesn’t know where to land. “
A great short story that encourages you to read more from this fine young author.
Her new world includes a lake formed due to rising sea levels which overwhelmed this part of the coast and drowned expensive beachside properties.
When her biology teacher sees her playing in the lake she becomes incensed and warns her off due to toxic pollution and in her mind disrespecting the past, her past as a child she’d enjoyed the rich summer houses along the beach.
The teacher feeling that the young people don’t get it abandons her lesson plans to focus on greenhouse gases and the threat to the planet; she seeks to demonstrate to her class that it is their future at risk.
This short story is beautifully told and demonstrates the hypocrisy of many rich adults / countries.
I loved that the class knew more about Chuntao than Mrs Fletcher. That the poor have a much lower carbon footprint while the rich salve their consciences with knowledge of statistical data.
I found this analogy between these divided kids and their tutor, the adult almost a parable of the mess we face unless both sides can be brought together.
The writing is bright and has a lively pace that brings the reader fully into the story.
Chuntao is a wonderful character unsure in her peer relationships but a feisty foe to Mrs Fletcher. The use of images she conjures up which the author to her thinking is smart and creative:
“My voice: I hated the sound of it, earnest and dumb as an adult’s, like a bumbling bug that doesn’t know where to land. “
A great short story that encourages you to read more from this fine young author.
June 29, 2022
A very short story, but one with a message that I've never thought of before: People from different economic classes have very different views about climate change. Poor people both contribute and are impacted on a much smaller level than rich people by this issue, so it makes sense that it wouldn't be such a big deal in their lives.
May 26, 2020
One of my favourite stories in Amazon’s Warmer Collection. This is a thought-provoking and deeply affecting look at how class divisions are perpetuated even in the face of extreme climate events. The world may be turned upside by weather, but what is chaos for one person represents an opportunity for another … And so our species carries on, even when faced with its own extinction.
April 1, 2023
‘At the Bottom of New Lake’ by Sonya Larson, #6 in Amazon’s Warmer series, is a good short story about how global warming is affecting people in affluent countries like America. The extremely poor have never had much materially. The middle and upper classes are losing their stuff and lifestyle. We all are being urged to change our ways to slow down the destruction of what is left of our life styles!
The narrator of this short story is a poor teenager who welcomes the flooding of her town. She is blind to a lot of the emotions of older and wealthier people who have lost houses to the rising seas. When she is informed of the things wealthier people have lost, she feels spitefully happy or is uncaring.
Chinese-American Chuntao Foon loves being able to swim and treasure-hunt in New Lake. When she dives into the oil-slicked waters now near her house, she brings up fur coats and silver candle holders. In the past, her house was miles from the beach. The beach also was inaccessible to her as it used to be closed off by many of the owners of beachfront properties. New Lake now laps at her front door. She is pleased she can swim finally! Her mind is not on global warming or the flooding or polluted waters. She has the hots for another girl in her class, Sandra.
Chuntao’s teacher, Mrs. Fletcher, on the other hand, has lost her summer beach home because of global warming. Her family’s beach house is under ocean water. Her beachfront town is half under ocean water. She is distressed by the losses.
Mrs.Fletcher and Chuntao cannot understand each other.
Quoted from the story:
”She instructed me to stand in front of the class. I obeyed, fists balled, looking out into the blinking faces—all except for Sandra, she kept her head down.
“Chuntao, I want you to guess,” she said, “the amount of gas you burned when you were driven to school today.”
My face felt hot. I couldn’t speak. “I didn’t,” I said.
“What was that?” Said Fletcher.
“I didn’t get driven to school,” I said.
“She doesn’t have a car,” said Jeremy.
“Shut up, twerp.” I wanted to cut him.
“But that’s right,” said Sandra, loudly so that all could hear. “Chuntao doesn’t burn fuels. She rides a bike. She walks.”
My heart lightened up. Mrs. Fletcher looked puzzled, as if she’d never encountered this situation before. “All right then, she said, drawing a zero on the board. “Moving on. The number of lamps you leave on in your house.”
“It’s tiny,” I said. “One lamp lights the whole kitchen, living room, and dining room, because in my house they’re all the same room.”
“All the meat that you eat.” We are vegetarians—most of us from Guangdong are.
“The ‘fast fashion’ you support.” But I explained how my mom sewed all my clothes, mostly from the fabric of old clothes.
Something amazing was happening. The kids were smiling; I felt I could fly. Never before had I felt proud to be poor.
“Where you go on vacation—consider not going far away, but staying close to home, so that you don’t burn so much fuel.”
“We don’t go on vacation.” In fact, on her rare days off, my mother flaps my old baby blanket onto the bank of New Lake, lays herself down, and enjoys the lapping of the water, same as me.
“Why don’t you put solar panels on your roof?” She said.
“Why don’t YOU put solar panels on my roof?” I said.”
In case you don’t get it, gentle reader, this is what White Privilege looks like to many poor people. I was a poor kid. I get it. As an educated (but still poor) adult, it is easy to see how some of the poor are delighting in the cutting off of what they see as privileged noses, but they apparently aren’t seeing beyond their own noses. Poor noses will soon be cut off by global warming too. When the rich catch a cold, the poor catch pneumonia.
Chuntao is a child. She is very inexperienced and unaware of almost everything except for the fact she has lacked stuff all of her short life. Richer folk, many of whom looked down on her, and are still looking down on her, are hurting because they’ve lost their summer beach houses. She does not at all have any sympathy for richer people who have lost valuable items, those with sentimental value and not. She is a real bitch, a heartless kid, who is ashamed of her poverty and the single status of her impoverished, but hardworking mother. The rage which fuels her emotions drowns her ability to see, much less do, any Big Picture thinking. For now. The story is a little slice of her life, a memoir or sorts, of a young girl in a moment.
However, I think it is sad if one carries this understandable emotion into adulthood. But I believe the attitude of Chuntao is representing attitudes of poorer people, and countries, all over the world. And the reality is a lot of the problems being caused by global warming really is a problem only rich people can solve. Global warming, after all, is a problem rich people, and countries, caused.
The narrator of this short story is a poor teenager who welcomes the flooding of her town. She is blind to a lot of the emotions of older and wealthier people who have lost houses to the rising seas. When she is informed of the things wealthier people have lost, she feels spitefully happy or is uncaring.
Chinese-American Chuntao Foon loves being able to swim and treasure-hunt in New Lake. When she dives into the oil-slicked waters now near her house, she brings up fur coats and silver candle holders. In the past, her house was miles from the beach. The beach also was inaccessible to her as it used to be closed off by many of the owners of beachfront properties. New Lake now laps at her front door. She is pleased she can swim finally! Her mind is not on global warming or the flooding or polluted waters. She has the hots for another girl in her class, Sandra.
Chuntao’s teacher, Mrs. Fletcher, on the other hand, has lost her summer beach home because of global warming. Her family’s beach house is under ocean water. Her beachfront town is half under ocean water. She is distressed by the losses.
Mrs.Fletcher and Chuntao cannot understand each other.
Quoted from the story:
”She instructed me to stand in front of the class. I obeyed, fists balled, looking out into the blinking faces—all except for Sandra, she kept her head down.
“Chuntao, I want you to guess,” she said, “the amount of gas you burned when you were driven to school today.”
My face felt hot. I couldn’t speak. “I didn’t,” I said.
“What was that?” Said Fletcher.
“I didn’t get driven to school,” I said.
“She doesn’t have a car,” said Jeremy.
“Shut up, twerp.” I wanted to cut him.
“But that’s right,” said Sandra, loudly so that all could hear. “Chuntao doesn’t burn fuels. She rides a bike. She walks.”
My heart lightened up. Mrs. Fletcher looked puzzled, as if she’d never encountered this situation before. “All right then, she said, drawing a zero on the board. “Moving on. The number of lamps you leave on in your house.”
“It’s tiny,” I said. “One lamp lights the whole kitchen, living room, and dining room, because in my house they’re all the same room.”
“All the meat that you eat.” We are vegetarians—most of us from Guangdong are.
“The ‘fast fashion’ you support.” But I explained how my mom sewed all my clothes, mostly from the fabric of old clothes.
Something amazing was happening. The kids were smiling; I felt I could fly. Never before had I felt proud to be poor.
“Where you go on vacation—consider not going far away, but staying close to home, so that you don’t burn so much fuel.”
“We don’t go on vacation.” In fact, on her rare days off, my mother flaps my old baby blanket onto the bank of New Lake, lays herself down, and enjoys the lapping of the water, same as me.
“Why don’t you put solar panels on your roof?” She said.
“Why don’t YOU put solar panels on my roof?” I said.”
In case you don’t get it, gentle reader, this is what White Privilege looks like to many poor people. I was a poor kid. I get it. As an educated (but still poor) adult, it is easy to see how some of the poor are delighting in the cutting off of what they see as privileged noses, but they apparently aren’t seeing beyond their own noses. Poor noses will soon be cut off by global warming too. When the rich catch a cold, the poor catch pneumonia.
Chuntao is a child. She is very inexperienced and unaware of almost everything except for the fact she has lacked stuff all of her short life. Richer folk, many of whom looked down on her, and are still looking down on her, are hurting because they’ve lost their summer beach houses. She does not at all have any sympathy for richer people who have lost valuable items, those with sentimental value and not. She is a real bitch, a heartless kid, who is ashamed of her poverty and the single status of her impoverished, but hardworking mother. The rage which fuels her emotions drowns her ability to see, much less do, any Big Picture thinking. For now. The story is a little slice of her life, a memoir or sorts, of a young girl in a moment.
However, I think it is sad if one carries this understandable emotion into adulthood. But I believe the attitude of Chuntao is representing attitudes of poorer people, and countries, all over the world. And the reality is a lot of the problems being caused by global warming really is a problem only rich people can solve. Global warming, after all, is a problem rich people, and countries, caused.
September 4, 2023
Another bleak projection in Warmer, the amazon series on climate change. Chuntao has always lived in Cape Cod, but her memories before the big flood are hazy. Discovering artifacts beneath the waters of new lake give her a look into the past and hope for acceptance among her classmates, one in particular. This actually would be fascinating reading if it were fleshed out into a full length novel.
March 5, 2024
2.5😐😐
August 29, 2022
2.5 Stars
I'm just not a fan of the stories in the "Warmer" collection. They all deal with Climate Change, but that's not my issue. It's just the stories themselves don't seem to mean much. I did like the premise in this one of the beach homes being flooded and the MC diving down to retrieve items from the sunken ruins. I also liked the way the teacher was saying how horrible it was people had lost their fancy beach homes, when the MC explained that it was more horrible to be poor and never able to afford anything to lose.
This wasn't terrible as it did a better job of getting across than some of the other "Warmer" stories, but overall this series just hasn't done it for me.
I'm just not a fan of the stories in the "Warmer" collection. They all deal with Climate Change, but that's not my issue. It's just the stories themselves don't seem to mean much. I did like the premise in this one of the beach homes being flooded and the MC diving down to retrieve items from the sunken ruins. I also liked the way the teacher was saying how horrible it was people had lost their fancy beach homes, when the MC explained that it was more horrible to be poor and never able to afford anything to lose.
This wasn't terrible as it did a better job of getting across than some of the other "Warmer" stories, but overall this series just hasn't done it for me.
November 26, 2018
A short story from Amazon’s Prime Reads Warmer Collection.
This one features kids scavenging from homes submerged by global warming. At heart it’s a love story. But it also says much about the divide between the generation sliding into climate change, and the generation that will follow the point of no return. It also comments on class, consumption, and one’s environmental footprint.
This one features kids scavenging from homes submerged by global warming. At heart it’s a love story. But it also says much about the divide between the generation sliding into climate change, and the generation that will follow the point of no return. It also comments on class, consumption, and one’s environmental footprint.
December 31, 2019
The best thus far. Amazon’s Cli-Fi collection has been disappointing, but I actually enjoyed this one.
April 27, 2022
So much pain. The pain of loss, of never having, feeling abandoned, and never reclaiming what was lost. Two sides to the same coin while the world literally burns down or washes away around them.
Neither one completely understands the other's pain.
Neither one completely understands the other's pain.
August 16, 2024
Of all the titles in this series, I hated this one the least. You don’t understand what high praise that is.
December 12, 2018
If people in your own choir are walking out while you're preaching, you should maybe rethink what you're saying, or at least how you're saying it. There is the faintest wisp of a story here, and tragically, it is a great one, so all the worse to see it lazily draped over a bunch of hard core eulogizing for lost property versus real poverty that is inevitably pending for all humanity. Perhaps there's an 'aw shucks' reader out there that will get to that part and be like, 'well darn, we should probably do something', but I doubt they'd get past the implied teen lesbianism. As a 'humans be damned' environmentalist myself, if I'm not rooting for your environmental message, you've probably stuffed it into an abysmal container.
The protagonist Chuntao absolutely captivated me outright, as did the world she lived in. Sadly, her story is then completely trivialized and only authentically returned to in the final moment. This is an excellent example of a story gone completely wrong, and is worth the read for that only.
November 4, 2021
Chuntao spends her free time reclaiming debris from the flooded section of Cape Cod. She battles with her teacher about who is responsible for climate change and how to deal with it.
I'm a little more torn on this entry for the Warmer series. The personality of our protagonist is bluntly depicted which is probably a requirement of time. There are some interesting ideas here about generational gaps and expectations, about blame and the burden or responsibility, and tunnel vision on how to move forward. But overall I'm confused on how a vignette about a specific person whose life has benefitted from warmer temperatures is supposed to rally anyone to the environmental fight. It might be trying to illustrate the nihilistic idea that we are all too consumed with our own immediate needs, love interests, and emotions to ever do anything about this massive real world problem--but then what's the point of this series? The writing isn't terrible but the narrative ends abruptly and the messaging is unclear or depressing.
I'm a little more torn on this entry for the Warmer series. The personality of our protagonist is bluntly depicted which is probably a requirement of time. There are some interesting ideas here about generational gaps and expectations, about blame and the burden or responsibility, and tunnel vision on how to move forward. But overall I'm confused on how a vignette about a specific person whose life has benefitted from warmer temperatures is supposed to rally anyone to the environmental fight. It might be trying to illustrate the nihilistic idea that we are all too consumed with our own immediate needs, love interests, and emotions to ever do anything about this massive real world problem--but then what's the point of this series? The writing isn't terrible but the narrative ends abruptly and the messaging is unclear or depressing.
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November 25, 2018
This, unlike most of the collection I've read so far, is actually a truly worthwhile read. A beautiful, sentimental, and yet, entirely realistic tale of what climate change will mean to some and to others, and how those different perceptions are at the core of our own loss of humanity and destruction.
This was beautiful and absolutely worth the 2o minutes or so it will take you to read.
This was beautiful and absolutely worth the 2o minutes or so it will take you to read.
December 22, 2020
Amazonun bu seriyası məni çox məyus edir. Okean sularının yüksəlməsi ilə evləri su altında qalan bir qəsəbənin bugünkü həyatını təsvir edib yeni nəslə şəhəri qorumağa səsləyir. Amma hekayədə qlobal istiləşmədən çox yeniyetmənin özünü kəşfi, irqi fərqlilik kimi məsələlərə toxunur ki, məncə, bu, hekayəni əsas qayəsindən uzaqlaşdırırdı.
November 22, 2018
Not what I expected
I'm new to this kindle thing. I think I misunderstood when I was picking out books. This was not a book, more like a short story someone in high school wrote. I would not waste my time with this one, just my opinion.
I'm new to this kindle thing. I think I misunderstood when I was picking out books. This was not a book, more like a short story someone in high school wrote. I would not waste my time with this one, just my opinion.
October 28, 2022
Decided to try another book in this collection after a non-starter because these books should be right up my alley, and this one I was thinking might not make it, but I found a redeeming perspective in it. What if global warming and the rising ocean erased the mansions of the rich vanish and the humble home of a hardworking single parent immigrant family was the new oceanfront? Should the family feel guilty about global warming in light of the reversal of fortune? When they have hardly enough money to leave a carbon footprint? The mash up of rich/poor first love and climate change did not always make sense, but untied against Fletcher, things came together. I could not find any sympathy for her, because her focus seemed to be more on the loss of white privilege over anything else. Lost everything, she kept saying? Not convinced.
December 31, 2020
This was a perfectly okay story. I cared about the protagonist, Chuntao, and liked her despite her surly attitude. Maybe if this short story was not part of a collection about climate change I would have rated it higher. My problem with it being included here is that it isn't a moral story. Yes, there has been flooding and some homes and land have been lost, but it could simply be the future. Any future. There is no implication that the flooding could have been stopped or that we were to blame.
December 27, 2018
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October 12, 2020
Different
December 10, 2018
Short story about the consequences of global warming, and how people try to deflect responsibility onto others. Sadly accurate, and thus very depressing.
June 6, 2022
Can't say that I enjoyed this short story. To be fair short stories and me are always gonna be iffy, and this one didn't cut it.
As always Emily Woo Zeller's nuanced performance was exemplary!
As always Emily Woo Zeller's nuanced performance was exemplary!
November 18, 2018
Blending youthful infatuation with a powerful message of the age old (at least for the climate change arc) debate of the responsibility of poor folks and countries to "do their fair share" in preventing climate change even if it means it's more struggle and burden. And frankly of the self-righteousness of climate wonks to pressure the average person to mitigate their footprint (the supposedly highest moral good) or face the wrath of judgment. But is austerity and sacrifice the best life for humans or something more selfish better? Tyler Cowen's famous proposition that we need to maximize economic progress rang throughout my ears on this read.
Change comes with taking away from people places or memories they once loved but can also come with places and memories for a new generation. The challenge is whether we collectively are okay with the loss and on whose backs we put the burden of preventing the loss. Do they even want to protect what is at stake?
Second favorite of the series.
Change comes with taking away from people places or memories they once loved but can also come with places and memories for a new generation. The challenge is whether we collectively are okay with the loss and on whose backs we put the burden of preventing the loss. Do they even want to protect what is at stake?
Second favorite of the series.
April 16, 2019
I wound up being a big fan of this one. I would say it's vaguely in the YA style, moreso than Edan Lepucki's contribution to this series. But the best volumes in this series are surprising, and offer a new perspective on climate change. That's certainly the case here, as you get to see the perspective of someone who doesn't remember the world "before," only as it is "now." There's some beautiful writing here, and Larson knows how to conjure an image. Along with "The Way The World Ends," this is a highlight of the series.
November 19, 2018
I appreciate the author writing from the perspective of someone other than your typically represented youth and, tangentially, about environmental concerns, but it just didn't come across as genuine to me. The main character felt very petty and her inner thoughts seemed a stretch. It was too short to really get a sense of the main character's motivations, let alone the motivations of her teacher and love interest.
March 1, 2020
The worst of the Warmer Collection of Amazon Originals.
This story rang so false. If this coastal area has already been so devastated, the climate discussion would be radically different. Instead the details from the classroom could be from 20 years ago.
The teen angst might come off better if this story had been developed better.
I’ve enjoyed this series a lot so far, surprised by how great the writing has been. I guess that is why this one was so disappointing.
This story rang so false. If this coastal area has already been so devastated, the climate discussion would be radically different. Instead the details from the classroom could be from 20 years ago.
The teen angst might come off better if this story had been developed better.
I’ve enjoyed this series a lot so far, surprised by how great the writing has been. I guess that is why this one was so disappointing.
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