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Diary in the age of water

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    Publisher:
    Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2020

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  • Author: Munteanu, Nina
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    Summary:

    Centuries from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide her with the answers to her yearning for Earth's past -- to the Age of Water, when the "Water Twins" destroyed humanity in hatred -- events that have plagued her nightly in dreams. Looking for answers to this holocaust -- and disturbed by her macabre longing for connection to the Water Twins -- Kyo is led to the diary of a limnologist from the time just prior to the destruction. This gritty memoir describes a near-future Toronto in the grips of severe water scarcity during a time when China owns the USA and the USA owns Canada. The diary spans a twenty-year period in the mid-twenty-first century of 33-year-old Lynna, a single mother who works in Toronto for CanadaCorp, an international utility that controls everything about water, and who witnesses disturbing events that she doesn't realize will soon lead to humanity's demise. A Diary in the Age of Water follows the climate-induced journey of Earth and humanity through four generations of women, each with a unique relationship to water. The novel explores identify and our concept of what is "normal" -- as a nation and an individual -- in a world that is rapidly and incomprehensibly changing.

    Contents:
    • Cover
    • Copyright
    • Title Page
    • Dedication
    • Also By
    • Epigraph
    • 125.5.2 AW
    • the library
    • the diary
    • april 12, 2045
    • august 22, 2045
    • september 12, 2045
    • october 13, 2045
    • february 17, 2046
    • may 2, 2046
    • august 4, 2046
    • january 10, 2047
    • may 31, 2047
    • july 30, 2047
    • september 7, 2047
    • april 1, 2048
    • may 23, 2048
    • june 30, 2048
    • september 9, 2048
    • october 12, 2048
    • january 6, 2049
    • march 22, 2049
    • march 27, 2049
    • july 13, 2049
    • august 25, 2049
    • october 7, 2049
    • november 11, 2049
    • february 1, 2050
    • march 10, 2050
    • april 28, 2050 September 12, 2050
    • january 8, 2051
    • may 31, 2051
    • july 4, 2051
    • august 13, 2051
    • september 11, 2051
    • september 20, 2051
    • june 3, 2052
    • august 13, 2052
    • september 24, 2052
    • november 1, 2052
    • march 25, 2053
    • october 31, 2053
    • november 12, 2053
    • july 1, 2054
    • september 16, 2054
    • march 6, 2055
    • june 10, 2055
    • february 24, 2057
    • april 17, 2058
    • august 25, 2059
    • april 31, 2061
    • january 20, 2062
    • june 6, 2063
    • february 9, 2064
    • may 23, 2064
    • june 1, 2064
    • june 11, 2064
    • august 17, 2064
    • december 21, 2064
    • january 8, 2065
    • february 14, 2065 February 22, 2065
    • march 24, 2065
    • april 10, 2065
    • april 12, 2065
    • may 19, 2065
    • june 11, 2065
    • july 17, 2065
    • august 2, 2065
    • september 25, 2065
    • january 15, 2066
    • march 2, 2066
    • june 9, 2066
    • july 30, 2066
    • august 7, 2066
    • august 15, 2066
    • september 2, 2066
    • september 11, 2066
    • september 24, 2066
    • october 13, 2066
    • october 31, 2066
    • november 22, 2066
    • the seed ship
    • illustrations
    • bibliography
    • acknowledgements
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771337403, 1771337400, 9781771337380, 1771337389