Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Milkweed Editions, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BE ST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard) , and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a h aunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clear er that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising sea s are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where t his change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from N ew York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans i n these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice--a Staten Isla nder who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native A merican community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pen sacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago--with profiles of wi ldlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communi ties, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for.