Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Name: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Author: Elizabeth Rush
ISBN: 9781571319708

Elizabeth Rush

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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Elizabeth Rush

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Rising won the Pulitzer Prize Finalist award, the National Outdoor Book Award, and was named a Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book of 2018 and a Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018. With 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 these dramatic changes, 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. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—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—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.

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