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The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow.
As I read this beautiful, intense, dark, and ultimately redemptive book, I fount myself thinking of Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, a cri de coeur and call to action over the environmental harm caused by the "indiscriminate use" of DDT. Yes, Carson wrote a nonfiction science book, and Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate is a dystopian near-future science fiction. But it also a cri de coeur, a call to action over the dangers of ignoring climate change and its devastating consequences. Pay attention, now, "the end of the world as we know it," is nigh (back coverO).
And it is also a story of Wanda, a young girl, born in the middle of a hurricane (for which she is named) growing up, and coming of age in a "rapidly changing world} (front cover), her family of birth, and the family she finds. It is a love story. It is a story of "rising seas and changing coastlines," enormous hurricanes, catastrophic floods (back cover). It is also a story of Wanda and "her mysterious purpose that has been whispering to her for all these years" (front cover).
I agree with Meredith Hall, autor of Beneficence, "readers will not forget this beautiful book." I know I won't/
Read it.
Highly recommended.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow.
As I read this beautiful, intense, dark, and ultimately redemptive book, I fount myself thinking of Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, a cri de coeur and call to action over the environmental harm caused by the "indiscriminate use" of DDT. Yes, Carson wrote a nonfiction science book, and Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate is a dystopian near-future science fiction. But it also a cri de coeur, a call to action over the dangers of ignoring climate change and its devastating consequences. Pay attention, now, "the end of the world as we know it," is nigh (back coverO).
And it is also a story of Wanda, a young girl, born in the middle of a hurricane (for which she is named) growing up, and coming of age in a "rapidly changing world} (front cover), her family of birth, and the family she finds. It is a love story. It is a story of "rising seas and changing coastlines," enormous hurricanes, catastrophic floods (back cover). It is also a story of Wanda and "her mysterious purpose that has been whispering to her for all these years" (front cover).
I agree with Meredith Hall, autor of Beneficence, "readers will not forget this beautiful book." I know I won't/
Read it.
Highly recommended.
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