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We Speak Through the Mountain

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The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds

Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied "domes" — the last remnants of pre-collapse society — isn't what she expected. Reid tries to excel in her classes and make connections with other students, but still grapples with guilt over what happened just before she left her community. And as she learns more about life at Howse, she begins to realize she can't stand idly by as the people of the dome purposely withhold needed resources from the rest of humanity. When the worst of news comes from back home, Reid must make a choice between herself, her family, and the broken new world.

In this powerful follow-up to her award-winning novella The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed is at the top of her game as she explores the conflicts and complexities of this post-apocalyptic society and asks whether humanity is doomed to forever recreate its worst mistakes.

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    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2024

      Reid Graham has "won" a coveted place at Howse University, one of the few surviving enclaves of pre-collapse technology and society in this post-climate-apocalypse world. Howse is supposed to serve as a beacon and a haven, but as Reid tries to reconcile her new life of ease, plenty, and knowledge-seeking with the "real" world she grew up in--the world of danger and illness and hardship and community--she begins to realize that Howse isn't so much a paradise as it is a trap that no one should ever want to leave. Then Reid's community calls her home, and she goes, unable to forsake the people she left behind, no matter the price or the punishment. Howse's world of elite and elitist academia will remind readers of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar, but at its heart, this is a story about eating from the Tree of Knowledge and being thrown out of paradise as a result. VERDICT Readers of hopepunk that asks difficult questions will find plenty to think about in Mohamed's follow-up to The Annual Migration of Clouds.--Marlene Harris

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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