Stillicide

A Novel

A powerful climate-crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which water is commodified and vulnerable to sabotage that is "close to perfect," "imaginative and far reaching," and "very human and deadly serious" (The Guardian).

Water is commodified. The water train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage.

As news breaks that construction of a gigantic ice dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful of the future, who weighs in his hands the possibility of death against the possibility of life.

From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, Stillicide is a moving story of love and loss and the will to survive, and a powerful glimpse of the tangible future.

©2019 Cynan Jones (P)2021 Tantor

Wholly unique and enthralling

The element I enjoyed most about this excellent and concise novel is that the dystopian aspects aren't really that dystopian at all. Highly recommended.