FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE
NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY
JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times),
"a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change
and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both
a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation
on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and
every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate
change is neither imagined nor distant-and that rising seas are
transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable
ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the
places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf
Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of
the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are
stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials
from those facing this choice-a Staten Islander who lost her father
during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community
on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola
settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago-with profiles of
wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these
vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too
often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for the paperback
edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability,
and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate
change-including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey,
Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael.
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