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The Great Transition

by Nick Fuller Googins
Stacy Carolan
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This richly imaginative, immersive, and "electrifyingly relevant" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.
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 book for the present and the future—read this and you will be changed" (Michelle Min Sterling, New York Times bestselling author).

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    August 15, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781797155845
      • File size: 332054 KB
      • Duration: 11:31:46

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 21, 2023
      Googins in his smart debut imagines a near-future where net-zero emissions are reached after catastrophic climate change. Larch and Kristina lose their loved ones to wildfires and preventable diseases, respectively, and fall in love after meeting as volunteers in a flooded New York City. They then start a family in the utopian city of Nuuk, Greenland. Fifteen years later, their daughter, Emi, laments their marital rift, which formed over their divergent political views. As the world is readying for a Day Zero celebration to commemorate the first day of net-zero, Kristina remains angry over past atrocities committed by “climate criminals.” Larch, however, is complacent with the new world. Not wanting to celebrate, Kristina volunteers to harvest crops in New York. Larch and Emi, meanwhile, attend the festivities and become entrapped in a terrorist attack. It turns out that those responsible for exploiting Earth’s resources remain alive and in power and will murder to keep it that way. Googins overlays an affecting family story on the speculative material, conveying Kristina’s disenchantment after she realizes the man she married wasn’t a fellow revolutionary after all. Climate fiction fans will enjoy this. Agent: Danielle Bukowski, Sterling Lord Literistic.

    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      Set in a near future, Googins's debut opens as Emi and her father, Larch, are celebrating Day Zero, the day Earth reached net-zero carbon emissions. The event descends into chaos when a man marked as a "climate criminal," who used to work for the fossil fuel industry, is assassinated. When Emi's mother, Kristina, goes missing, Emi and Larch wonder if she might have been involved. Interspersed with Emi and Larch's search for Kristina are Larch's recollections of the climate change movement known as the Great Transition, when Larch and Kristina worked fighting wildfires, building sea walls, and supporting aid projects after the collapse of a giant Antarctic ice sheet. Emi's interviews and essays for her school project on the climate crisis provide further insight into the events shaping the family's history. The author describes current conditions from the perspective of his optimistic future (where McDonald's is a worker-owned co-op, and everyone dedicates two weeks a year to civil service) and considers the climate crisis's adverse effects and humanity's possible response as plausible. Googins's easily digestible prose is complemented by Stacy Carolan and Stacy Gonzalez's well-paced, engaging narration. VERDICT This hopeful and intriguing climate fiction debut makes an impact.--Nessa Vahedian Khezerlou

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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