"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"--
"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"--
Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Rush’s work has appeared in a wide range of publications from the New York Times to Orion and Guernica . She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Metcalf Institute. She lives with her husband and son in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
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Cast of Characters 1 Prologue 5
ACT ONE Part One Departures 13 Part Two Stalled 43 Part Three First Passage 61
ACT TWO Part One Into the Ice 97 Part Two Islands 119 Part Three Between the Past and the Future 163
ACT THREE Part One Arrival 197 Part Two Nameless Bay 213 Part Three Underneath 247
ACT FOUR Part One The Quickening 277 Part Two Holding Season 299 Part Three Going to Pieces 323
