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A review by latad_books
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
4.0
A lovely and meditative tale that charts the dissolution of Florida's climate, infrastructure and services due to the increasingly violent effects of climate change. Wanda, named by her mother after the hurricane that was raging while she was delivering her baby, grows up in a Florida that is falling apart. Wanda is never comfortable in the life made for her by her linesman father Kirby and older brother Lucas. Instead, Wanda learns how to survive the environmental changes from a caring, survivalist older woman and neighbour.
Together, they note the changes they experience: the destruction of infrastructure, the fleeing people, the shuttering of hopes for a Florida long neglected by its politicians, flooding towns and cities, burgeoning wildlife, and silence broken by the sounds of animals, and rain, in the incredible, killing heat.
Even while Lily Brooks-Dalton charts the loss of the things created by humans, she shows how nature persists, and constantly changes, and there is both harshness and beauty in the process.
Together, they note the changes they experience: the destruction of infrastructure, the fleeing people, the shuttering of hopes for a Florida long neglected by its politicians, flooding towns and cities, burgeoning wildlife, and silence broken by the sounds of animals, and rain, in the incredible, killing heat.
Even while Lily Brooks-Dalton charts the loss of the things created by humans, she shows how nature persists, and constantly changes, and there is both harshness and beauty in the process.