Publisher's Synopsis
One week before the Global Mandatory Hibernation and Flea Wheeler will do anything to avoid a long winter underground. A claustrophobic climate refugee who has been living rough on the flooded streets of Manchester, Flea dreads the day she'll be forced into shelter so a geoengineering experiment can attempt to reverse the chaotic effects of global warming. Armed with nothing but her stolen umbrella, Flea is on a mission to stay on the surface and somehow survive the extreme weather. 'Shrinking Sinking Land' is a YA cli-fi story of survival, solidarity and defiance the face of environmental catastrophe for ages 14 and up. *Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest Runner Up (2016). "Suspenseful...sharply well-written...and altogether a success." Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
