The year of no summer
Subtitle: a reckoning
By: Rachel Lebowitz
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781771962193
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Weather; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Effect of volcanic eruptions on; Eruption, 1815; Environmental aspects; Canadian essays
Work titles: Essays
Description: "On April 10th, 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted. A build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered weather patterns and lead, in 1816, to a year without a summer. Instead, there were June snowstorms, food shortages, epidemics, inventions, and the proliferation of new cults and religious revivals. These linked lyrical essays chart the events and effects of the apocalyptic year following the eruption. Weaving history, fairytale, mythology, and memoir, Rachel Lebowitz ruminates on our interaction with weather and the natural world, motherhood, transformation, war, the human appetite for destruction, and our search for God and meaning in times of disaster."--
Notes: Linked lyric essays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-154).
Table of contents: title: Their useless wings --; title: Mud --; title: Tambora --; title: The last frost fair --; title: The garden of the fugitives --; title: Ragnarok --; title: Daedalus --; title: Medusa --; title: The children of famine --; title: Let not the Lord --; title: The ice maiden --; title: The Laufmashine --; title: Afterword: The path.