Terrestrial History
For a slender book, Terrestrial History delivers an enthralling plot; complex, realized characters; and a wealth of fine-cut sentences ... Piercing, poetic.
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A century-spanning, multigenerational saga about one family’s experiences with Earth’s unfolding climate catastrophe, an affecting, emotional story about loss, community, and the false promise that we may somehow be able to find a convenient escape from the consequences of our actions ... Reed deftly taps into our present anxieties, not just that of our worsening climate, but of our worsening relationship to one another.
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Moving and intelligent ... [A] richly drawn family history ... Reed uses the multivocal structure to great effect ... The novel is a triumph of the climate fiction genre ... A brilliant exploration of time and the possibilities inherent in any vision of the future, Terrestrial History manages to be both hopeful and devastating.
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