Not much is known about life there, but it’s rumoured to be one of the last few places on earth that life resembles the ‘before’ times, which is the life of abundance we currently enjoy. The story opens with a jolt of exciting news in Reid’s life against extremely unlikely odds, she has been accepted into the ‘domes’, which is essentially a university one must apply to with an essay submission. There is no more electricity, internet, or technology of any kind.
Society has come together as best as possible to keep going there are doctors, there is enough food but just barely, and everyone basically works day and night to keep the food supply going by growing their own plants, weaving fibers from recycled plastic, and hunting skinny wild rabbits when in need of extra meat, which is scarce. Set in the future in Edmonton, Alberta once the foretold climate disaster has done all the terrible things scientists said it would, Reid and her mother are living their daily, exhausting but somewhat stable lives. I don’t often say this n my reviews, but I truly wish this book was longer because I would have loved to follow these characters for hundreds of more pages. It’s a worthy cause because so many novellas are overlooked simply because they aren’t considered serious enough with their shorter page count (why do we consider books that are super long ‘serious’?) I’d like to say I was organized and consciously planned my reading of novella The Annual Migration of Clouds by Alberta author Premee Mohamed for this month, but it was Naomi’s review over at Consumed by Ink that pushed me to give this one a go now, as it had been languishing on my shelf for a few months.
Lots of bloggers participate in Novellas for November, which is basically just an annual campaign to read more novellas this month.
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