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    Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
    Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
    Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
    Audiobook7 hours

    Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

    Written by Elizabeth Rush

    Narrated by Coleen Marlo

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    Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.

    In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, 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 in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice―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―with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins.

    At once polyphonic and precise, Rising is a shimmering meditation on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities, both human and more than human, and on how to let go of the places we love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781721333073
    Author

    Elizabeth Rush

    Elizabeth Rush’s journalism has appeared in the Washington Post, Harper's, Guernica, Granta, Orion, and the New Republic, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship, awarded by Brown University; the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Pedagogical Innovation in the Humanities; the Metcalf Institute Fellowship; and the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University and her BA from Reed College. She lives in Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.

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    • 4/5
      While a fairly short read it took me some time to get through. There is a lot to unpack in Rising and it is worth every moment you choose to pick it up to keep reading. I was a bit put off by excerpts that seemingly had no place in the narrative. I could see the purpose they were meant to serve but found them more a chapter filler more than being helpful. I personal stories of those Elizabeth visited were powerful and one, in particular, will stick with me for the rest of my life. Nicole and the death of her father was most certainly a story that woke me up to how little I have paid attention to what has been going on around me. Elizabeth weaves powerful information through the stories she tells and I look forward to educating myself more on our climate change issues. The gap between the wealthy and the low to the working class is striking. While not new knowledge, the disparity is maddening.

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    • 5/5
      The Reading Across Rhode Island selection for 2020.

      I congratulate the selection committee for another great choice.

      To some it seems a stretch that the author included the section on the spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, but I think that works as an example of environmental work that has been successful. I think we need such examples when we contemplate climate change and sea-level rise.

      This is a scientific book, but the writing is lyrical, and the people in it, including the author, are real with real feelings.