For fans of Station Eleven
and The Ministry for the Future,
this richly imaginative, immersive, and “profound” (Alice Elliott
Dark, author of Fellowship Point) novel is the electrifying story of
a family in crisis that unfolds against the backdrop of our near
future.
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.