A Quokka Dreeds its Weird

In a climate change slow apocalypse, people on Vancouver Island try their best to save what they value: rescuing library books from a flood, cultivating new plants, or, in one of the more interestingly complicated decisions, cutting down an old-growth tree to make a violin for a child prodigy.

I put a copy of this book in my mystery-date wrapped books with a card that read, "A green book. A mossy, leafy, foresty book. A hopeful post-apocalyptic novel of the woods."

It's a fix-up novel, a set of connected short stories about the people of the island, how their lives change, and how the island changes. There's some awkward phrasing and it was sometimes hard to keep track of who was who, but a lot of the writing is beautiful, and it has a powerful atmosphere not just of forests but of hope and community amidst the loss. Sad things happen but people keep on living their lives. I liked this a lot.