One of LitHubтАЩs "365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library"
тАЬFiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic.тАЭ тАУElizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
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Originally published in 2000, T. C. BoyleтАЩs prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapse
It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most mammalsтАФnot to mention fish, birds, and frogsтАФare extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love"тАФscruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.
It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. as a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter Sierra and his wife Andrea. Now, just when he's trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life.┬а
T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.
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