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A review by kailinmooney
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
4.0
I really really enjoyed this book, the writing was fantastic, but the last 3 pages made me narrow my eyes and scrunch my nose, which tragically turned my five star rating into a 4.5.
This book was a sloooow one for me, I didn’t really know where some plot points were going, but I didn’t care that much- I was along for the atmospheric ride. This book was quiet, subtle, cold, and sad. It made me feel a lot of things in very gentle strokes. It is filled with an aching loneliness.
We follow Franny while jumping between many different chapters of her life, which is set in a near-future dystopian climate crisis earth where pretty much everything wild is extinct. Franny is searching for connection and meaning in a life where she has felt mostly untethered, which leads her to seek out the migration of the final arctic terns. She ends up on a ship with a crew of fishermen (queue obvious moral quandaries about killing the few remaining fish in a dying ocean). All the while we flash back into multiple different time periods that start to unravel Franny’s forlorn and tragic backstory with slivers of hope to moor us.
This book was a sloooow one for me, I didn’t really know where some plot points were going, but I didn’t care that much- I was along for the atmospheric ride. This book was quiet, subtle, cold, and sad. It made me feel a lot of things in very gentle strokes. It is filled with an aching loneliness.
We follow Franny while jumping between many different chapters of her life, which is set in a near-future dystopian climate crisis earth where pretty much everything wild is extinct. Franny is searching for connection and meaning in a life where she has felt mostly untethered, which leads her to seek out the migration of the final arctic terns. She ends up on a ship with a crew of fishermen (queue obvious moral quandaries about killing the few remaining fish in a dying ocean). All the while we flash back into multiple different time periods that start to unravel Franny’s forlorn and tragic backstory with slivers of hope to moor us.