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Book Review of ‘Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore’ by Elizabeth Rush by Max Boykoff<\/p>\n Both elegy and eulogy, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore is a compelling portrait of life in a changing climate. Author Elizabeth Rush\u2019s work of creative non-fiction brings you in \u2014 experientially, scientifically, emotionally, aesthetically, viscerally \u2014 to US communities grappling with the realities of human-induced climate change in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n Moving from the Gulf Coast to New York\u2019s Staten Island and Maine\u2019s outer banks to the Pacific Northwest and the San Francisco Bay, the book includes testimonials from inhabitants of these communities \u2014 stakeholders if you will. Rush intersperses these first-person accounts with her own. Along the way, she reveals personal details while also profiling the struggles of people like Richard Santos in Alviso, California, Marilynn Wigging in Pensacola, Florida and Laura Sewall in Small Point, Maine. Most striking in this work is the power of Rush\u2019s storytelling; from it, we as readers gain insights into the climate challenges experienced by people living at the water\u2019s edge. Read more …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book Review of ‘Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore’ by Elizabeth Rush Nature Climate Change\u00a08\u00a0,\u00a0doi: 10.1038\/s41558-018-0288-5 by Max Boykoff Both elegy and eulogy, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore is a compelling portrait of life in a changing … Continue reading
\n<\/em>Nature Climate Change<\/em>\u00a08<\/em>\u00a0,\u00a0doi: 10.1038\/s41558-018-0288-5<\/a><\/p>\n