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There's No Place Like Home
In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos, by the New York Times bestselling author of California.
Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.
Edan Lepucki’s There’s No Place Like Home is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.
Edan Lepucki’s There’s No Place Like Home is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
31 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 30, 2018
About the author
Edan Lepucki
9 books33.1k followersEdan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17. Her new novel, Time's Mouth, was published August 1, 2023.
Edan is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire, The Cut, McSweeney's, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She was the guest editor of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019.
She likes taking baths, reading, and filling out forms.
Edan is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire, The Cut, McSweeney's, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She was the guest editor of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019.
She likes taking baths, reading, and filling out forms.
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February 11, 2022
The Warmer Collection, only from audible, is a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by some thought-provoking authors. “There’s No Place Like Home” is written by Edan Lepucki, who has penned “California”; “People in Hell Want Ice Water”; and “Woman No 17”.
This is the third piece I’ve read/listened to about a future in which the author sees nothing but bleakness and a dystopian outcome. (Most recently “Anthem” by Noah Hawley comes to mind.) This little gem is 1 hour and 16 minutes. It’s genre categories include fantasy. I used to think of these dystopian stories as a bit farcical and a bit fantasy. Yet, it seems to plague the minds of some our more interesting authors. So, are these stories fantasy? Could it be our future? There are authors out there that are trying to wake-up the masses to the fact that if we don’t do something about our environment soon, and really soon, our planet will become uninhabitable for humans.
Saying that, this is NOT a diatribe on our current culture. It’s an idea. Author Lepucki uses a young girls voice to tell her story. Narrator Lauren Ezzo is the perfect sweet voice for this quick story. It’s also a coming-of-age story in that Vic, the protagonist, learns some shocking news about her father; he was not the man she thought he was.
I enjoyed this freebee. I would not have listened to it if it wasn’t free, which is a shame. This is a worthy listen, free or otherwise. Thank you GR friends Elyse and Tania for making me aware of this gem.
This is the third piece I’ve read/listened to about a future in which the author sees nothing but bleakness and a dystopian outcome. (Most recently “Anthem” by Noah Hawley comes to mind.) This little gem is 1 hour and 16 minutes. It’s genre categories include fantasy. I used to think of these dystopian stories as a bit farcical and a bit fantasy. Yet, it seems to plague the minds of some our more interesting authors. So, are these stories fantasy? Could it be our future? There are authors out there that are trying to wake-up the masses to the fact that if we don’t do something about our environment soon, and really soon, our planet will become uninhabitable for humans.
Saying that, this is NOT a diatribe on our current culture. It’s an idea. Author Lepucki uses a young girls voice to tell her story. Narrator Lauren Ezzo is the perfect sweet voice for this quick story. It’s also a coming-of-age story in that Vic, the protagonist, learns some shocking news about her father; he was not the man she thought he was.
I enjoyed this freebee. I would not have listened to it if it wasn’t free, which is a shame. This is a worthy listen, free or otherwise. Thank you GR friends Elyse and Tania for making me aware of this gem.
December 9, 2018
My goodness....this is an eerie story -
mysterious -
depressing - devastating - worrisome -
but very impressive writing....
We are introduced to Vic - 13 years old. It was especially interesting to ‘get’ how a young girl feels and thinks when her world around her is volatile.
The tone of Edna’s story is personal ...
Vic is dealing with the ‘loss’ of her daddy...
while awakening to the haunting ‘reality’ about climate changes we all face.
Vic is trying to figure things out about her father & mother... the way young people do when - perhaps - they are just waking up to their childhood limited perception of their parents.
Vic’s daddy, Lawrence:
“He could teach me about irregular verbs and world wars and science and climate change, but he could never once talk about what might be wrong with me and my body. He could never tell me what he was feeling. He was the one whose job hardly brought in money while mom worked her ass off to keep the lights on. He ate three eggs while she and I shared one”.
Reading this story - I couldn’t help but stop and think about the recent California fires.
The devastating horror that happened in Paradise, Ca.
I can remember years ago Global warning and climate changes sounded frightening yet not directly- physically discomforting.
Edan Lepucki’s short story points to the reality that the time has arrived - we ‘are’ beginning to ‘feel’ the discomforts of global warming. It’s not a just a distant fear of loss any longer.
This short story - $1.99 or Kindle Unlimited on Amazon as an ebook or Audiobook...is one of 7 short stories- a collection as part of ‘The Warmer’ series...
all themes are about climate changes.
The other six authors who have contributed a story in this collection are:
Lauren Groff, Jess Walter, Jesse Kellerman, Skip Horack, Sonya Larson, and Jane Smiley.
Personally - I’d buy the entire collection
- $1.99 each or $13.93 for the complete series if I knew the profits went to an environmental defense fund to fight global warming. I just don’t know what the status is about the profits of these books...
- But I like the purpose behind them.
Edan Lepucki is a terrific storyteller.
I love her two novels,
“California”, and “Woman No. 17”.
This short story is exquisitely written, original, and unsentimental.
mysterious -
depressing - devastating - worrisome -
but very impressive writing....
We are introduced to Vic - 13 years old. It was especially interesting to ‘get’ how a young girl feels and thinks when her world around her is volatile.
The tone of Edna’s story is personal ...
Vic is dealing with the ‘loss’ of her daddy...
while awakening to the haunting ‘reality’ about climate changes we all face.
Vic is trying to figure things out about her father & mother... the way young people do when - perhaps - they are just waking up to their childhood limited perception of their parents.
Vic’s daddy, Lawrence:
“He could teach me about irregular verbs and world wars and science and climate change, but he could never once talk about what might be wrong with me and my body. He could never tell me what he was feeling. He was the one whose job hardly brought in money while mom worked her ass off to keep the lights on. He ate three eggs while she and I shared one”.
Reading this story - I couldn’t help but stop and think about the recent California fires.
The devastating horror that happened in Paradise, Ca.
I can remember years ago Global warning and climate changes sounded frightening yet not directly- physically discomforting.
Edan Lepucki’s short story points to the reality that the time has arrived - we ‘are’ beginning to ‘feel’ the discomforts of global warming. It’s not a just a distant fear of loss any longer.
This short story - $1.99 or Kindle Unlimited on Amazon as an ebook or Audiobook...is one of 7 short stories- a collection as part of ‘The Warmer’ series...
all themes are about climate changes.
The other six authors who have contributed a story in this collection are:
Lauren Groff, Jess Walter, Jesse Kellerman, Skip Horack, Sonya Larson, and Jane Smiley.
Personally - I’d buy the entire collection
- $1.99 each or $13.93 for the complete series if I knew the profits went to an environmental defense fund to fight global warming. I just don’t know what the status is about the profits of these books...
- But I like the purpose behind them.
Edan Lepucki is a terrific storyteller.
I love her two novels,
“California”, and “Woman No. 17”.
This short story is exquisitely written, original, and unsentimental.
November 20, 2018
Vic is 13 years old. In a world ravaged by increased temperatures, her generation will never really grow up. Girls her age, in the extreme heat and stress of everyday life, no longer go through puberty. Lots of people are moving north, abandoning places further south to the baking heat. When her father commits suicide, Vic wants to understand why he took his life, why he let her mother work so hard and why he made some of the choices he made. She discovers that truth isn't simple.
There's No Place Like Home is the 4th story in the Warmer Collection from Amazon/Audible Originals. Each story presents a picture of a world ravaged by global warming.
This story is very dark and Vic learns a rough lesson. Not only does she have to contend with a messed up life in a ravaged, hot, horrible world, but she faces betrayal from unexpected directions as well. The future is pretty much hopeless.
This entire collection so far has been weird and not all that enjoyable. I didn't really like this story all that much either. Very bleak. Not all that believable. And horrible characters. I felt Vic was horribly betrayed by both her parents...by everyone around her....and by life itself. The story itself is strange, rambling and uncomfortable. Not all stories are for every reader....and this collection so far seems to not really be my cup of tea.
I've been listening to the audio versions of these stories. Each one is about an hour long. There's No Place Like Home is narrated by Lauren Ezzo. She does a great job narrating. She reads at an even pace and has a nice voice. I have partial hearing loss, but was easily able to understand the entire story.
I'm going to listen to the entire collection, but so far I'm just not feelin' it. For me, these stories have been strange and disappointing. Moving on to the 5th story -- Falls the Shadow. Maybe I will like the next one better.
There's No Place Like Home is the 4th story in the Warmer Collection from Amazon/Audible Originals. Each story presents a picture of a world ravaged by global warming.
This story is very dark and Vic learns a rough lesson. Not only does she have to contend with a messed up life in a ravaged, hot, horrible world, but she faces betrayal from unexpected directions as well. The future is pretty much hopeless.
This entire collection so far has been weird and not all that enjoyable. I didn't really like this story all that much either. Very bleak. Not all that believable. And horrible characters. I felt Vic was horribly betrayed by both her parents...by everyone around her....and by life itself. The story itself is strange, rambling and uncomfortable. Not all stories are for every reader....and this collection so far seems to not really be my cup of tea.
I've been listening to the audio versions of these stories. Each one is about an hour long. There's No Place Like Home is narrated by Lauren Ezzo. She does a great job narrating. She reads at an even pace and has a nice voice. I have partial hearing loss, but was easily able to understand the entire story.
I'm going to listen to the entire collection, but so far I'm just not feelin' it. For me, these stories have been strange and disappointing. Moving on to the 5th story -- Falls the Shadow. Maybe I will like the next one better.
November 2, 2022
I don't enjoy reading short stories, but I love listening to these free short audible originals. I liked the narration done by Lauren Ezzo and Vic's thoughts and actions felt very authentic for a 13-year old. What I liked most is that this dystopian future felt very possible and as if it could happen very soon - scary!
The Story: Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.
The Story: Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.
March 7, 2023
Not for me. Science Fiction rarely interests me. This is a short story - I don’t see a point to it. 🤷🏼♀️
April 29, 2020
'The worst part of global warming isn’t all the fear and loss. It’s discomfort.'
Writing CliFi is tricky. Both Jesse Kellerman and Edan Lupucki opt for bleak character studies in their Warmer shorts that are too light on the science and too heavy-handed on the dystopian angst.
Writing CliFi is tricky. Both Jesse Kellerman and Edan Lupucki opt for bleak character studies in their Warmer shorts that are too light on the science and too heavy-handed on the dystopian angst.
March 14, 2019
Was not sure that I would enjoy this series but the discipline to bring thought and original stories from the threat of global warming is working for me.
In this punchy narrative we have LA ravaged by temperature, lack of water and little hope for the future.
For a 14-year-old child living up in the hills outside the city environs she is learning to adjust. She idolises her father who earns money from teaching and learns by default around his students. His income is poor, and the family survive ‘cos mum works hard and long hours.
Life changes dramatically when Victoria’s dad dies unexpectedly.
I enjoyed the possible vision of the future that while not seeking to be sci-fi fiction is an insight of how society my change. The worst-case scenario is implied for teenagers Vic’s age, malnourished and even at 14 not yet reaching puberty.
Scope for thought and any writer could speculate under this commission, Edan Lepucki is reserved in her future but with some clever touches almost asides detailing the new reality. I particularly felt it was so powerful to highlight the plight of children and young people while dispatching the poor as those that stood little chance of surviving. Nothing has changed and there is little left to live for it seems unless you have money and can afford a lifeboat.
Bright and clever writing with naught into changing relationships but where gender roles appear to be unchanged. A powerful message without polemic or political zeal. Writing at its best.
In this punchy narrative we have LA ravaged by temperature, lack of water and little hope for the future.
For a 14-year-old child living up in the hills outside the city environs she is learning to adjust. She idolises her father who earns money from teaching and learns by default around his students. His income is poor, and the family survive ‘cos mum works hard and long hours.
Life changes dramatically when Victoria’s dad dies unexpectedly.
I enjoyed the possible vision of the future that while not seeking to be sci-fi fiction is an insight of how society my change. The worst-case scenario is implied for teenagers Vic’s age, malnourished and even at 14 not yet reaching puberty.
Scope for thought and any writer could speculate under this commission, Edan Lepucki is reserved in her future but with some clever touches almost asides detailing the new reality. I particularly felt it was so powerful to highlight the plight of children and young people while dispatching the poor as those that stood little chance of surviving. Nothing has changed and there is little left to live for it seems unless you have money and can afford a lifeboat.
Bright and clever writing with naught into changing relationships but where gender roles appear to be unchanged. A powerful message without polemic or political zeal. Writing at its best.
December 7, 2020
Searching for Understanding
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook edition (October 2018)
There is really effective world building in this post-apocalyptic short story where a young teenager searches for understanding of her father's suicide while looking for work with a local salvage crew called The Sandbaggers. It has a very Mad Max feel to it, although not in the action thriller sense, just in the environment. This is the first that I've heard of writer Edan Lepucki and I'll be interested to read her other work.
There's No Place Like Home is one of the 7 short stories included in the Warmer Collection, a series of climate-related fiction released October 30, 2018 from Amazon Original Stories. Fear and hope collide in this collection of possible tomorrows. What happens when boiling heat stokes family resentments; when a girl’s personal crisis trumps global catastrophe; or when two climate scientists decide to party like it’s the end of the world? Like the best sci-fi, these cli-fi stories offer up answers that are darkly funny, liberating, and all too conceivable.
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook edition (October 2018)
There is really effective world building in this post-apocalyptic short story where a young teenager searches for understanding of her father's suicide while looking for work with a local salvage crew called The Sandbaggers. It has a very Mad Max feel to it, although not in the action thriller sense, just in the environment. This is the first that I've heard of writer Edan Lepucki and I'll be interested to read her other work.
There's No Place Like Home is one of the 7 short stories included in the Warmer Collection, a series of climate-related fiction released October 30, 2018 from Amazon Original Stories. Fear and hope collide in this collection of possible tomorrows. What happens when boiling heat stokes family resentments; when a girl’s personal crisis trumps global catastrophe; or when two climate scientists decide to party like it’s the end of the world? Like the best sci-fi, these cli-fi stories offer up answers that are darkly funny, liberating, and all too conceivable.
July 25, 2022
Blah. So far, this entire series has been pretty worthless. The best thing these books have going for them are they are free and short.
April 1, 2023
‘There’s No Place Like Home’ by Edan Lepuckie is a multilayered quilt of literary depths and emotions! The novella is disguised as a simple short story, a Bildungsroman, about living in a world where global warming has reached its zenith. Since this is a 30-page novella, #4 in Amazon’s Warmer series, I was blown out of the, um, I’d say water, but in this dystopia water is worth more than diamonds, being rarer. There is no body of water to be blown out of, except the salty ocean.
A 13-year-old girl, living near Los Angeles after global warming and the Big One with her worn out mother, learns who her parents really were after her daddy commits suicide.
I have copied the book blurb:
”In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos, by the New York Times bestselling author of California.
Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.
Edan Lepucki’s There’s No Place Like Home is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
A 13-year-old girl, living near Los Angeles after global warming and the Big One with her worn out mother, learns who her parents really were after her daddy commits suicide.
I have copied the book blurb:
”In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos, by the New York Times bestselling author of California.
Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.
Edan Lepucki’s There’s No Place Like Home is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
April 25, 2022
I try to write a review for everything I read, but sometimes there really isn't anything to say.
This is an engaging, well-written, cautionary tale.
This is an engaging, well-written, cautionary tale.
January 1, 2021
'The worst part of global warming isn’t all the fear and loss. It’s discomfort.' Vic, 13
This is my favorite so far in the series about Global Warming available on Amazon Prime for free. This is set in the (possibly) not so distant future. It's hot, water is rationed, there's very little employment and almost no schooling. The latest generation of children don't even reach physical maturity because of the climate and malnourishment.
Vic's father commits suicide and she is on a mission, first to replace his income, and eventually to figure out why. This was short, quick and compelling. In broad brush stroke, in very few pages, Lepucki made the world feel real to me. Made me care about Vic.
This is my favorite so far in the series about Global Warming available on Amazon Prime for free. This is set in the (possibly) not so distant future. It's hot, water is rationed, there's very little employment and almost no schooling. The latest generation of children don't even reach physical maturity because of the climate and malnourishment.
Vic's father commits suicide and she is on a mission, first to replace his income, and eventually to figure out why. This was short, quick and compelling. In broad brush stroke, in very few pages, Lepucki made the world feel real to me. Made me care about Vic.
September 4, 2023
Short fiction in the "warmer" series on amazon that examines possible effects of climate change. In a not too distant future, Vic is 14 and will probably never be more than a child thanks to her mother's experience while pregnant with her, a condition that seems to have been prevalent for Vic's generation. Parts of this hummed with possibility, but there were several elements added that prevented it from being a true 5 star read.
August 5, 2023
What I liked most about 'There's No Place Like Home' was the focus on the way thirteen-year-old Vic's perception of her situation and her relationships changed over the course of the story. The story is set in a near future America where climate change has made large portions of the USA uninhabitable and where Vic's generation, born after the major changes hit, are, for reasons unknown, perpetually stuck in prepubescence. There are lots of intriguing details about climate change and its effects on daily life but I liked that while these details provided an essential context for the story, they weren't allowed to dominate it.
The heart of the story lay in Vic's reassessment of her relationship with her parents. Initially, Vic comes across as a Daddy's Girl. He has been her teacher and her friend and was the person that she most loved and admired. Until, in the early pages of the story, he kills himself.
Vic needs to understand why he did this. She needs to grieve. She needs to rebuild her relationship with her mother. Most of all, she needs to find a way to earn enough money to get herself and her mother out of the financial hole her father's death has left them in.
As the story progresses, Vic comes to realise how poorly her father had been coping with the reality of the world that she has grown up in.
He was an educated man who was constantly mourning the loss of the world as it used to be, forecasting the inevitable doom of the human race and disparaging the unprincipled things that people were doing to survive.
It takes Vic a while to see that this worldview was a sign of weakness rather than wisdom. Vic looks at her world as it is, acknowledges the discomforts and the personal challenges but still sees beauty in the world and has a desire to go on living.
By the end of the story, Vic has accepted three things: by committing suicide, the power of her father's voice in her head has been nullified; her mother is and always has been, the stronger parent and Vic's future, such as it is, is hers to build.
'There's No Place Like Home' took me a little over an hour to listen to but, in that time, I got to see a plausible near-future and got to meet the women who were finding a way to cope with it. To me, that felt like time well spent.
The heart of the story lay in Vic's reassessment of her relationship with her parents. Initially, Vic comes across as a Daddy's Girl. He has been her teacher and her friend and was the person that she most loved and admired. Until, in the early pages of the story, he kills himself.
Vic needs to understand why he did this. She needs to grieve. She needs to rebuild her relationship with her mother. Most of all, she needs to find a way to earn enough money to get herself and her mother out of the financial hole her father's death has left them in.
As the story progresses, Vic comes to realise how poorly her father had been coping with the reality of the world that she has grown up in.
He was an educated man who was constantly mourning the loss of the world as it used to be, forecasting the inevitable doom of the human race and disparaging the unprincipled things that people were doing to survive.
It takes Vic a while to see that this worldview was a sign of weakness rather than wisdom. Vic looks at her world as it is, acknowledges the discomforts and the personal challenges but still sees beauty in the world and has a desire to go on living.
By the end of the story, Vic has accepted three things: by committing suicide, the power of her father's voice in her head has been nullified; her mother is and always has been, the stronger parent and Vic's future, such as it is, is hers to build.
'There's No Place Like Home' took me a little over an hour to listen to but, in that time, I got to see a plausible near-future and got to meet the women who were finding a way to cope with it. To me, that felt like time well spent.
November 29, 2021
This was my favorite out of the series. It's a family drama with people who are struggling to survive in a harsh environment. Simple but effective.
January 4, 2019
This brilliant “short” reinforces all that science tells us is in our future as a result of climate change and human consumption. The tragically innately beautiful main character, Vic, acknowledges her fate as a perpetual teenager, locked in a body that will never fully develop as her mind outraces her physical being. She is a youngster forced to mature beyond her years as she faces a cruel, barren world where the wealthy eat regularly and can afford the most precious commodity—clean water. She dispassionately relates her lot in life without asking for reader sympathy, though this author brilliantly manages to elicit just that.
Vic throughout professes her love for her academic father, clearly a man self-absorbed to the point of abuse, and she seeks only to somehow find a justification for his untimely death. Though he has throughout Vic’s life been a well-spring of shared knowledge, he has additionally been the primary reason for their poverty, a fact not necessarily lost on this introspective teen. Her search for the ultimate truth, one that would bring others to their knees, again provides insight into her depth of character—life is what it is and nothing she can do will ever change that.
Perhaps the most emotional aspect of this read was that Vic acknowledges that she will not see adulthood, nor will any of those born into her generation, yet she faces that mortality with a pragmatic eye that will leave the reader longing to show her a kinder, gentler existence.
From a mother quite obviously doing the best she can to survive and provide, to a “boss” that shows Vic an aspect of humanity that appears to be lacking in this new world, the characters elicit visceral responses that are both profoundly sobering and deeply disturbing.
Don’t go into this looking for a plot that is particularly engaging. Instead, look at this as a dire warning that couldn’t be more timely.
Vic throughout professes her love for her academic father, clearly a man self-absorbed to the point of abuse, and she seeks only to somehow find a justification for his untimely death. Though he has throughout Vic’s life been a well-spring of shared knowledge, he has additionally been the primary reason for their poverty, a fact not necessarily lost on this introspective teen. Her search for the ultimate truth, one that would bring others to their knees, again provides insight into her depth of character—life is what it is and nothing she can do will ever change that.
Perhaps the most emotional aspect of this read was that Vic acknowledges that she will not see adulthood, nor will any of those born into her generation, yet she faces that mortality with a pragmatic eye that will leave the reader longing to show her a kinder, gentler existence.
From a mother quite obviously doing the best she can to survive and provide, to a “boss” that shows Vic an aspect of humanity that appears to be lacking in this new world, the characters elicit visceral responses that are both profoundly sobering and deeply disturbing.
Don’t go into this looking for a plot that is particularly engaging. Instead, look at this as a dire warning that couldn’t be more timely.
December 2, 2018
Satisfying
I felt like I was there, sharing in their misery. With every horrible thing going on, all the usual problems of family persist. Getting to know your father is easier when he's dead.
I felt like I was there, sharing in their misery. With every horrible thing going on, all the usual problems of family persist. Getting to know your father is easier when he's dead.
January 2, 2021
Sorry, I’ve been trying to read this series of books but I’m not enjoying any of them so that’s it
June 4, 2023
Headline: Will we face the reality or run from it?
Plot: After losing her father to suicide, Vic tries to navigate the loss and life in a warming world where she won't live long and healthy enough to become an adult.
Likes: I really liked the major discovery and plot twist in the story. We can connect to the main characters, their fate, and their suffering.
Dislikes: None.
Recommended audience: I think anyone who enjoys short stories will like this one. It might resonate closer with women.
Rating: I give it 5/5 stars, it's very well written.
Plot: After losing her father to suicide, Vic tries to navigate the loss and life in a warming world where she won't live long and healthy enough to become an adult.
Likes: I really liked the major discovery and plot twist in the story. We can connect to the main characters, their fate, and their suffering.
Dislikes: None.
Recommended audience: I think anyone who enjoys short stories will like this one. It might resonate closer with women.
Rating: I give it 5/5 stars, it's very well written.
September 5, 2020
cw: suicide
There was a lot to like, including the implied mythology of a doomed generation of kids who, due to malnutrition etc., would always be kids. That part was super interesting? The rest? Well, I personally wasn't satisfied with the answer our MC Vic uncovered about her dad's death, and the ending seemed a bit abrupt and inconclusive.
There was a lot to like, including the implied mythology of a doomed generation of kids who, due to malnutrition etc., would always be kids. That part was super interesting? The rest? Well, I personally wasn't satisfied with the answer our MC Vic uncovered about her dad's death, and the ending seemed a bit abrupt and inconclusive.
December 9, 2018
With the new climate change reporting being so dire, I felt I should read some of these short stories in the Warmer collection.
A great first story to start reading.
A great first story to start reading.
June 9, 2023
Enjoyed it.
December 7, 2018
Emotional
A little dark but ripe with human emotion is how I see this story. It portrays a rather dire look at our planet in the future.
A little dark but ripe with human emotion is how I see this story. It portrays a rather dire look at our planet in the future.
December 2, 2018
Some dystopian meets family drama
In a world devastated by climate change, with parts of it disappearing from the map, a girl struggles to overcome the loss of her dad while learning that family priorities are not as black and white stuff. There’s more to it than meets the eye and fills the stomach b
In a world devastated by climate change, with parts of it disappearing from the map, a girl struggles to overcome the loss of her dad while learning that family priorities are not as black and white stuff. There’s more to it than meets the eye and fills the stomach b
December 2, 2018
Sorrow
Struggle in the changes and yet still trapped by old social imperatives. Heat, hard work and failing environment humanity died quietly singing the old songs. Truth or fiction?
Struggle in the changes and yet still trapped by old social imperatives. Heat, hard work and failing environment humanity died quietly singing the old songs. Truth or fiction?
November 30, 2018
The best of series so far
This was story 3 for me and the best thus far. Relatable conditions further in the future. I recommend it.
This was story 3 for me and the best thus far. Relatable conditions further in the future. I recommend it.
November 25, 2018
Home is hot
A glimpse of the hot and smokey California future (which we’re actually experiencing now) where self driving cars are the norm and Peter Pan syndrome is real.
A glimpse of the hot and smokey California future (which we’re actually experiencing now) where self driving cars are the norm and Peter Pan syndrome is real.
November 26, 2018
A coming of age story about a girl who will never grow up in the new world of LA
November 23, 2018
I expected these to be more about the changes to the planet, but they're more about how humans are. To some extent, how we remain the same.
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