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The Great Transition

A Novel

by Nick Fuller Googins
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This richly imaginative, immersive, and "electrifyingly relevant" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi's mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi's illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they aren't the only ones looking for Kristina.

Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a movement that changed the world­—The Great Transition—forging a new society and finding each other in process.

Alternating between Emi's desperate search for her mother and a meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents' experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, The Great Transition is "a book for the present and the future—read this and you will be changed" (Michelle Min Sterling, New York Times bestselling author).

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    August 15, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781668010778

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  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2023

      After a dozen climate criminals are assassinated in a dystopian near-future, Emi Vargas's mother disappears--not surprisingly, as she's a suspect in the killings. To find her, Emi and her father travel from Greenland to a climate change-wrecked New York City, but they aren't alone in their hunt. A big promotional push. Prepub Alert.

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      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 21, 2023
      Googins in his smart debut imagines a near-future where net-zero emissions are reached after catastrophic climate change. Larch and Kristina lose their loved ones to wildfires and preventable diseases, respectively, and fall in love after meeting as volunteers in a flooded New York City. They then start a family in the utopian city of Nuuk, Greenland. Fifteen years later, their daughter, Emi, laments their marital rift, which formed over their divergent political views. As the world is readying for a Day Zero celebration to commemorate the first day of net-zero, Kristina remains angry over past atrocities committed by “climate criminals.” Larch, however, is complacent with the new world. Not wanting to celebrate, Kristina volunteers to harvest crops in New York. Larch and Emi, meanwhile, attend the festivities and become entrapped in a terrorist attack. It turns out that those responsible for exploiting Earth’s resources remain alive and in power and will murder to keep it that way. Googins overlays an affecting family story on the speculative material, conveying Kristina’s disenchantment after she realizes the man she married wasn’t a fellow revolutionary after all. Climate fiction fans will enjoy this. Agent: Danielle Bukowski, Sterling Lord Literistic.

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