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Cave Walker, Donelle Dreese

Eco-Fiction Posted on February 12, 2019 by MWPFebruary 12, 2019

My hope is that Cave Walker fits into contemporary eco-fiction in the sense that nature occupies a central space in the novel almost at all times. The Maine woods through which Gillian hikes to reach the holy cave is a … Read more

Where the Forest Meets the Stars, Glendy Vanderah

Eco-Fiction Posted on February 6, 2019 by MWPFebruary 6, 2019

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself … Read more

Great American Desert: Stories, Terese Svoboda

Eco-Fiction Posted on February 5, 2019 by MWPFebruary 5, 2019

Preorder at The Ohio State University Press Svoboda (Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet, 2016, etc.) returns to her art’s quintessential landscape to relate the overlapping epochs of the great American desert…A challenging author’s take … Read more

Tentacle, Rita Indiana

Eco-Fiction Posted on February 5, 2019 by MWPFebruary 5, 2019

Rita Indiana’s Tentacle (originally published in Spanish as La mucama de Omicunlé) is a speculative text that has as much to say about the future as it does about the present. While the novel is set in the Dominican Republic in the … Read more

A Jenny Willson Mystery Series, Dave Butler

Eco-Fiction Posted on January 24, 2019 by MWPJanuary 24, 2019

The first in Butler’s series of novels – Full Curl – was short-listed for the Kobo Emerging Writers Award in the mystery category, and won the coveted Arthur Ellis Award (Crime Writers of Canada) for Best First Crime Novel in … Read more

The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker

Eco-Fiction Posted on January 21, 2019 by MWPJanuary 21, 2019

Walker’s first novel tapped neatly into our fears about the melting of the permafrost. Global warming has a role to play in “The Dreamers,” too. There is drought in California, and the book’s fictional college sits by a lake that’s … Read more

All Among the Barley, Melissa Harrison

Eco-Fiction Posted on January 14, 2019 by MWPJanuary 14, 2019

All Among the Barley works best in its intensely-researched descriptions of farming: although prone to words like “Cerulean”, “soughing” and “susurrate”, they bring to poetic life the hard-won knowledge needed to determine when a crop is ripe. The drama of … Read more

The Wall, John Lanchester

Eco-Fiction Posted on January 14, 2019 by MWPJanuary 14, 2019

The novel expertly touches on the most pressing issues of our time – migration, political unrest and climate change – and acts as a warning for what could come. –The Standard UK Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads … Read more

Beneath the Mother Tree, D.M. Cameron

Eco-Fiction Posted on December 23, 2018 by MWPDecember 23, 2018

A spine-chilling mystery and contemporary love story, Beneath the Mother Tree plays out in a unique and wild Australian setting, interweaving Indigenous history and Irish mythology…On a small island, something sinister is at play. Resident alcoholic Grappa believes it’s the … Read more

Crudo: A Novel, Olivia Laing

Eco-Fiction Posted on December 23, 2018 by MWPDecember 23, 2018

Paste Magazine calls Laing’s Crudo one of the best novels in 2018 and states: Crudo centers on Kathy, who has just turned 40 and is soon getting married, as she navigates her own changing life against the backdrop of Brexit, … Read more

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