Inland - Softcover

Risse, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1961905078 ISBN 13: 9781961905078

Publisher: 12 Willows Press, 2024

Synopsis

A mother and son. An America underwater. Three hundred miles between them.

When catastrophic flooding reshapes the eastern seaboard overnight, Juliet finds herself stranded in the Florida Panhandle with no way north and no way to reach Billy, her teenage son outside Boston. Infrastructure is failing. Communication is unreliable. And the country between them is no longer the one either of them knew.

Juliet pushes north through a drowned landscape, mile by difficult mile. Billy navigates suburban Boston's unraveling alone, where technology is both a lifeline and a liability. What holds them both forward is the same thing: the certainty that the other is out there, moving.

"With our unsettling new normal of seemingly nonstop fires and floods, I find myself thinking all the time about Kate Risse's powerful novel—a story that felt like fiction until recently, and now feels like a handbook for holding onto our humanity as climate change transforms the landscape before our eyes."
—Chris Lynch, author of The Italian Party

"A chilling meditation on the fragility—and the resilience—of the ties that bind us in the face of crisis."
—Amanda Hagood, professor of environmental humanities

For readers of Station Eleven, Leave the World Behind, and The Road.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Risse teaches Spanish language and culture at Tufts University. She has published articles on the history and culture of Spain and Latin America. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her family and spends time on Dog Island and in the mountains of Vermont. "Inland" is her debut novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: 12 Willows Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1961905078
• ISBN 13: 9781961905078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 365