OCTOBER CLIMATE BEACON BOOK CLUB
Event Details
Special Event
October 25th
Virtual
Zoom
Please join The Climate Initiative for the launch of our Climate Beacon Book Club in partnership with Back Cove Books! Our first pick will feature local Maine author, Nick Fuller Googins, and his debut novel Great Transitions. Virtual discussion will take place October 25th at 7pm eastern.
Zoom links will be sent via email to all attendees prior to the event.
Where to Purchase
TCI is thrilled to partner with Back Cove Books for this book club. Every month, club members can enjoy 10% of this month’s pick with the code TCICLUB. Orders can be placed here for pick up or shipping. If unable to purchase this month’s selection, we encourage you to check out your local library!
Book Description
What happens after we save the world? In the near future, humanity hasn’t avoided the worst of climate change—wildfires, rising oceans, mass migration, and skyrocketing inequality have become the daily reality. But just when it seems that it can’t get any worse, remarkably, a movement of workers, migrants, and refugees inspires the world to band together, save the planet, and rebuild a society for all. This is The Great Transition.
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi’s mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi’s illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they aren’t the only ones looking for Kristina.
Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a movement that changed the world—The Great Transition—forging a new society and finding each other in process.
Alternating between Emi’s desperate search for her mother and a meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents’ experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, The Great Transition is a breathtaking rendering of our near future, told through the story of one family trying to protect each other and the place we all call home.