harrow - joy williams

What a mercy to encounter a merciless mind in a merciless time. "I was honored at an environmental conference there, their last one. Loss was the theme. Reflections on loss. Ways to navigate loss. The opportunities in loss. How to make loss work for you...What a bunch of fruitcakes." It's funny, grim novel set in a near-future of ecological collapse, mostly about a small group of old people gathered on the shores of a dead black lake to plot acts of retributive ecoterrorism: "a gabby seditious...