For fans of Station Eleven or Birnam Wood a literary novel with a dystopian world as its
setting and at its heart is a human story about compassion in times of great adversity. 'An
astonishing work of art...This is the kind of book that changes you that leaves you seeing
more vividly and living more fully in its wake' Rachel Khong author of Real Americans
'Gorgeous lush struck with humor and light so warm caring and care-taking luminous and
wise' Meng Jin author of Little Gods In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain
Bo a 40-year-old lapsed artist is grieving the community she's lost to catastrophic flooding.
Her friends and family have disappeared or fled the streets are rivers and the buildings are
falling apart. Yet on the day of her planned departure Bo finds a note slipped under her
door: 'I need help' it reads. 'Three days a week afternoons. Can pay in cash.' Unable
to bring herself to board the ship that could save her life Bo instead chooses to answer the
note which turns out to have been written by her neighbour Mia a 130-year-old
"supercentenarian" long abandoned by her own family.
