The Great Transition: A Novel

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For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and profound (Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point) novel is the electrifying story of a family in crisis that unfolds against the backdrop of our near future.

Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emis mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emis illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they arent the only ones looking for Kristina.

Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a movement that changed the worldThe Great Transitionforging a new society and finding each other in process.

Alternating between Emis desperate search for her mother and a meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, The Great Transition is a breathtaking rendering of our near future, told through the story of one family trying to protect each other and the place we all call home.

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Hopeful, bold, imaginative, and heartbreaking,The Great Transitionlucidly shows the incredible capacity of utopian thinking to inspire and change lives, while addressing the devastating costs of climate inaction. I cant stop thinking about this visionary novel and its singular characters. Nick Fuller Googins has written a book for the present and the future read this and you will be changed. Michelle Min Sterling,New York Timesbestselling author ofCamp Zero
A magnificent debut novel thats both an important cautionary tale and a deeply compelling family story.Although set in a stunningly well-imagined future in the aftermath of a climate apocalypse,The Great Transitionis electrifyingly relevant.I cant remember ever being more impressed with a first novel. William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land
Nick Fuller Googins demonstrates exactly the kind of clear-eyed utopian thinking well need more of as we work together to solve our climate crisis, wrapping a call to action, accountability, and mutual aid in a story thats as thrilling as it is moving. Every worthwhile novel sets out to change its readerthis one sets out to change the world. I hope it does.Matt Bell, author ofAppleseed
The Great Transitionasks what it means to start overas a society and as individualsand then answers with visionary scope. Offering readers thrilling glimpses into utopic possibilities born from collective mobilization, as well as an unflinching assessment of our climate crisis, Nick Fuller Googins brilliantly renders the personal political and the political personal. A must-read debut that kept me enthralled and left me inspired. Allegra Hyde, author ofEleutheria
This book melds the huge and the intimate, the imperatives of our global climate crisis with the more compact narrative of a family trying to do right by one another when the world goes sideways. Fuller-Googins stares down some of today's biggest societal issues with abundant imagination and endless empathy. Emily Nemens, author ofThe Cactus League
This remarkable novel tells the story of a family trying to hold together after the world has shattered by a cataclysmic climate disaster.NickFullerGoogins writesbeautifully and knowledgeably about the speculative future while focusing on a compelling human story.I was moved by the enormous moral conviction at the heart ofThe Great Transitionand its vision of the future, one that is full of human folly but ultimately offers hope. This is a profound work of great wisdom. Alice Elliott Dark, author ofFellowship PointandIn the Gloaming

Author Bio

Nick Fuller Googinshas published short stories and essays inThe Paris Review,theLos Angeles Times,The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine, and works as an elementary school teacher.The Great Transitionis his first novel.