Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Written by:
Elizabeth Rush
Narrated by:
Coleen Marlo

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
9
Narrator
2
Release Date
November 2018
Duration
8 hours 0 minutes
Summary
Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.

In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice―a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago―with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins.

At once polyphonic and precise, Rising is a shimmering meditation on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities, both human and more than human, and on how to let go of the places we love.
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Anonymous

Interesting and riveting story about the rare and unpredictable storm on East voast.

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LORI F.

Timely subject. I never realized just how the rising sea levels would affect communities like San Francisco. Growing up in a family with two ocean front homes, I am acutely aware of the rise in flood insurance prices. We sadly said goodbye to our beloved home with my father unable to afford the $60,000 annual cost on his social security. another class dissection in the haves and have nots.

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