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The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

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The Great Transition

A Novel

by Nick Fuller Googins

Length 11 hours 31 minutes

Language English

Narrators Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez

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Bookseller recommendation

“What a propulsive thriller! I was immediately sucked into this climate story which is full of emotion, adventure and strong characters. Larch (father) and Emi (daughter) are searching for Kristina (mother) who has suddenly gone missing. Told through multiple voices and a great high school history project, the story of how the world almost ended due to the Climate Crisis but was saved by people banding together in the Great Transition is both a hopeful tale while raising questions about accountability and justice. ”
— Anne • Newtonville Books

Bookseller recommendation

“The world burns and the world drowns as global warming threatens all. But the youth rise up and meet the challenge. Net zero carbon emissions is reached. The earth begins to heal. But the old guard 'climate criminals' try to reassert their influence, and those who fought them are not happy. Emi Vargas struggles with the possibility that her mother may be a vigilante seeking justice for all the has been lost. Great read! ”
— Rachel • Quail Ridge Books

Bookseller recommendation

“This book has been living rent free in my head since I finished it weeks ago. With every wildfire, flood, or other climate disaster popping up on my news feed, this book comes to mind. As our real world burns, more and more Climate Fiction is propelled to the top of book lists - and this one certainly deserves to top those lists. Told in alternating viewpoints and timelines, we see the world almost fall to climate destruction, get picked up, and then forget about its recent history and begin to repeat the same mistakes. The Great Transition viscerally feels like the most accurate outcome of our current trajectory and offers a realistic look at how while nearing our own extinction from poisoning our planet, today's class war determines what, and who, survives. I cannot recommend this book enough - it is gripping, thrilling, and far too accurate. Also, I will definitely be using the term 'climate criminal' moving forward.”
— Lauren • Chapterhouse Books

Summary
About the author

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).

Fiction Science Fiction Apocalyptic & Dystopian Fiction - Literary

Nick Fuller Googins has published short stories and essays in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine and works as an elementary school teacher. He is the author of The Great Transition and The Frequency of Living Things.