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Picador, paperback

Publication Date:July 19, 2022

Publisher Marketing:”An essential document of our time.
Charles D’Ambrosio, author ofLoitering

We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live?

Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts.

Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing watershed discipleship in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farmingguns into ploughshares. She watches the worlds greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again.

Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward,Believersis able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope.