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Adrift by Lisa Brideau

Part mystery, part hero's journey that uses climate change to pose existential questions.

Part mystery, part hero's journey that uses climate change to pose existential questions

A book cover featuring an overhead photo of a turbulent ocean.

Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She finds a note, but it's more warning than comfort:Start over. Don't make yourself known. Don't look back.

Ess must have answers. She sails over a turbulent ocean to a town hundreds of miles away that, she hopes, might offer insight. The chilling clues she uncovers point to a desperate attempt at erasing her former life. But why? And someone is watching hersomeone who knows she must never learn her truth.

In Ess's world, the earth is precariously balanced at a climate tipping point, and she is perched at the edge of a choice: which life does she want? The one taken from herand the dangerous secret that was buriedor the new one she can make for herself?

A galvanizing riddle that is just as unmooring as it seems, this sharp character-driven odyssey explores a future challenged by our quickly changing world and the choices we must make to save what matters most. (From Sourcebooks)

Lisa Brideau is a Vancouver-based writer, sustainabilitypolicy specialist and former aerospace engineer.Adriftis her first novel.

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