Set around one hundred years from today, the great strength of this book is in the parallels it draws to our current political and environmental climates.
Seen mostly through the eyes of Holly, an ambitious publicist, and Richard, her academic husband, this story is centred on a US presidential campaign where the stakes are higher than ever before. The US is divided into the more habitable north, and a south which is either drought ridden or storm battered. There is already a wall along the Mexican border and now the migrants are those who battled the weather until they had nothing left and have been forced to flee northwards. But what happens when the north is full and the weather keeps coming?
The premise put forward in this novel is scarily plausible, and I loved the nods to our current situation and how badly things could go wrong. I don't think you'd have to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy this novel.
Seen mostly through the eyes of Holly, an ambitious publicist, and Richard, her academic husband, this story is centred on a US presidential campaign where the stakes are higher than ever before. The US is divided into the more habitable north, and a south which is either drought ridden or storm battered. There is already a wall along the Mexican border and now the migrants are those who battled the weather until they had nothing left and have been forced to flee northwards. But what happens when the north is full and the weather keeps coming?
The premise put forward in this novel is scarily plausible, and I loved the nods to our current situation and how badly things could go wrong. I don't think you'd have to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy this novel.