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๐๐ฎ๐› ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐ž: ๐Ÿ“.๐Ÿ•.๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’  ๐‘‚๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ค!


Thank you partner @bibliolifestyle and @harpermusebooks for a spot on tour and a gifted book.

In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to be family, Black women, and alive in a world on fire.

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The world is burningโ€”and Corrine will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother died aboard an oil boat on the Mississippi River in 2013, Corrine awakened to the realities of climate change and its perpetrators. Now, a year later, she finds herself trapped in a lonely cycle of mourning both her brother and the very planet she stands on. Sheโ€™s convinced that in order to save her future, she has to make sure that her brotherโ€™s life meant something. But in the act of honoring her brotherโ€™s spirit, she resurrects family ghosts she knows little aboutโ€”ghosts her grandmother Cora knows intimately.

The world is burningโ€”but it always has been. Coraโ€™s ghosts have followed her from her days as a child integrating schools in 1950s Nashville to her new life as a mother, grandmother, and teacher in Mississippi. As a child of the civil rights movement, sheโ€™s done her best to keep those specters away from her granddaughter. She faced those demons, she reasons to herself, so that Corinne would never know they existed.

When Corrineโ€™s plan to stage a dramatic act of resistance peels back the scabs of her family wounds and puts her safety in jeopardy, both grandยญmother and granddaughter must bring their unspoken secrets into the light to find a path to healing. Their world hangs in the balance as past and future meet in the present moment.

In heartfelt, lyrical prose, Mary Annaรฏse Heglar weaves an unforgettable story of the climate crisis, Black resistance, and the enduring power of family.

๐ŸŒก๏ธ๐˜ฟ๐™ค ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™Ÿ๐™ค๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™ค๐™ค๐™ ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™ก๐™š ๐™˜๐™ช๐™ง๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™˜๐™จ?

Nomad Century | Book Feature

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By Gaia Vince

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Pub Date: 8.23.2022


๐Ÿ“–  Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earthโ€™s human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century, global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to see literal billions displaced in the coming decades. What exactly is happening, Vince asks? And how will this new great migration reshape us all?

In this deeply-researched call to action, Vince draws on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, to tell us how the changes already in play will transform our food, our cities, our politics, and much more. Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever. 

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This summer we had drought conditions and wildfires all over Texas, while others in Kentucky were suffering from devastating flooding. When I received this book, it made me stop and think. I know we talk a lot about Climate Change, but Gaia Vince addresses the population migration that will occur because of it. This is not only a fascinating and important read but a bit scary too. 

Thank you @Flatiron_books for this gifted copy.

๐ŸŒพ Have you noticed any major changes in your environment (climate) where you live?