A review by jessiewolf
The Future by Catherine Leroux

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

5.0

This alternate history imagines a world in which Detroit never became a part of the US, and its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and racism that are all too real. Gloria arrives in Fort Detroit searching for her young granddaughters who went missing after their mother was murdered. She relies on her neighbors to help her follow rumors of children living on their own in woods. What they find is a complex society of orphaned and abandoned children struggling to survive. Leroux's book turns the idea that children will "save us" from climate change on its head--instead, THE FUTURE suggests that our children will pay the highest prices of systemic inequality and the consequences of climate disasters. This sharp novel is not exactly optimistic, but is is thoroughly engaging and I  read it in one day and haven’t stopped thinking about it since!