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LocationOakland
Call NoF CAF
TitleAll the water in the world : a novel / Eiren Caffall.
AuthorCaffall, Eiren, author.
Barcode529666
CollectionFiction
Summary"In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York's Museum of Natural History in a flooded future. All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city's flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved. Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story-with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most - love and work, community and knowledge - will survive"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250353528 : $29.00
International Standard Book Number 1250353521 : $29.00
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6 23/eng/20240729
Personal Name Caffall, Eiren, author.
Title Statement All the water in the world : a novel / Eiren Caffall.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
Physical Description 294 p. Hardcover 22 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York's Museum of Natural History in a flooded future. All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city's flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved. Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story-with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most - love and work, community and knowledge - will survive"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Floods Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Survival Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Apocalyptic fiction. Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Apocalyptic fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft