num_pages: 365
description: For those who loved Barbara Kingsolvers Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush.The time is now or an alternate near now the world close to our own. A mammoth Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America leaving devastation in its wake its outer wings brushing over tiny Blaze Island in the North Atlantic.Just as the storm disrupts the present it stirs up the past: Mirandas memories of growing up in an isolated wind-swept cove and the events of long ago that her father will not allow her to speak of. In the aftermath of the storm she finds herself in a world altered so quickly and so radically that she hardly knows what has happened. As Miranda says change is clear after it happens. (Goose Lane Editions)
language: English
title: Blaze Island
publisher: Goose Lane Editions