A post-apocalyptic book of drowned cities and super storms and of danger and survival can sometimes provide the perfect escape from reality! All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall is such a book. It helps that I can visualize and put myself in the physical setting of the book. At some point, I think this book would make a good movie. The ending is perhaps too neat a package, but what an adventure getting there.
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Reviewed for NetGalley.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2025/02/all-water-in-world.html
Reviewed for NetGalley.
huge thanks to netgalley and st. martin's press for the advanced kindle read. i inhaled this book over 24 hours AND it was truly a wonderful distraction during election day and the day after. this was beautifully crafted. complex characters along with a deeply disturbing narrative of life in new york city and north of the city after climate change floods everything, literally. being a new york city expat, i absolutely loved the setting of the american museum of natural history and even a chapter about storm king mountain, a place i lived and loved for five blissful years. and the might hudson river. oh man, so shocking to witness the obliteration of all of it. so humbling. and so apocalyptical. if you like this genre, this book will captivate you. and might just leave you feeling very grateful for all of life's everyday conveniences and comforts, too. as the buddhists teach, life is impermanent.
