Description
An intimate yet wide-sweeping story of a marine biologist working to save ocean ecosystems from climate change.
With the world's oceans ravaged by climate change, Émeraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the Arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean that will save her when the world she leaves behind is irrevocably changed.
Stories of Émeraude's ancestors -- a young sailor abandoned at birth, a conjuror who mixes potions for her neighbours, a violent young man who hides in the woods to escape an even more violent war, and a talented young singer born to a mother who cannot speak -- weave their way through her intimate reflections on a modest life, unknowingly shaped by those who came before.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Author: J. D. Kurtness
Publisher: Rare Machines
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781459747760
ISBN10: 1459747763
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Fiction | Nature & the Environment
- Fiction | Literary
With the world's oceans ravaged by climate change, Émeraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the Arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean that will save her when the world she leaves behind is irrevocably changed.
Stories of Émeraude's ancestors -- a young sailor abandoned at birth, a conjuror who mixes potions for her neighbours, a violent young man who hides in the woods to escape an even more violent war, and a talented young singer born to a mother who cannot speak -- weave their way through her intimate reflections on a modest life, unknowingly shaped by those who came before.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Author: J. D. Kurtness
Publisher: Rare Machines
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781459747760
ISBN10: 1459747763
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Fiction | Nature & the Environment
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
J.D. Kurtness won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Prose in 2018 for Of Vengeance. She lives in Montreal.