![]() ![]() The birds have all disappeared the fish decimated many species of animals extinct. The recognition is instantaneous and rings so true we begin to feel we may have been shaken from the dream that living on earth used to be. ![]() She lives in a soon-to-be world we all recognize, where we are “unable to stop the maddening inevitable doom we have built.” And with this, novelist Charlotte McConaghy yanks us into her novel’s orbit. Without sentimentality, Charlotte McConaghy takes the reader on a searing emotional roller coaster right to the edge of the abyss, and then she pushes.Ī wild woman who will leap without hesitation into freezing water to rescue others, the character Franny Stone is a woman you’d consider brave and ferocious until you realize she has lost everything - and so has nothing left to lose. You like this character, you want to go on this journey with her, and then she says: “I’ve decided to die.”īeautiful and emotional, “Migrations” is a story for the ages, a meditation on what connects us throughout our evolutionary history. ![]()
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