Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Elizabeth Rush 2018

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
natural disaster climate sea level America

Our Take

Rush travels the American coastline that is already disappearing under rising seas — marsh communities in Louisiana, Staten Island residents who lost everything in Sandy. The writing is lyrical and the grief is present tense: this is not a future catastrophe but a current one, slow enough to be ignored. A book about what we are choosing to let drown.

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