Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for gifting me an advance reader's copy in exchange for an honest review!

This book takes place after climate change has and is ravaging the world. Our protagonist, Nonie, lives with her father and sister on the roof and in the top levels of the American Museum of Natural History, along with different scientists and people who have made their way to the shelter. Storms have decimated much of New York City, but floodgates do their best to keep the world at bay - until the big storm comes and Nonie and her family are forced to leave. We follow them as they try to find somewhere else to go, and it's action-packed, switching back and forth between their life at the museum and their journey to a new home. The narrative moves quickly, but Caffall manages to anchor us in quiet, contemplative moments and interactions that hit with a gut punch.

I was initially apprehensive about reading this book because I'm not really in the mood for doom-and-gloom right now when the whole world feels doom and gloom, but this book was incredibly, incredibly hopeful. Hopeful that no matter how bad things get, there will always be people willing to help and be in community. Hopeful that we can save our history and art and create a new home even after all has been destroyed. Hopeful about our capacity to see past our differences. This book does not by any means have any rose-colored glasses - it's not remotely Pollyanna-ish about how climate change will inevitably bring out the worst of people's racism, nativism, insularity, fear, and violence. And it didn't feel overbearing or overwrought - it didn't hit you in the head with it. I felt so attached to Nonie and Bix and Keller and the whole cast of characters we got to know, and this story will stay with me for a while.