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  • Published: 19 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9780143136538
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

Warmth

Coming of Age at the End of Our World



From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe

“Strikingly perceptive.” —Jenny Offill, author of Weather
 
“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” —Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORKER AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“[Warmth] is lyrical and erudite, engaging with science, activism, and philosophy . . . [Sherrell] captures the complicated correspondence between hope and doubt, faith and despair—the pendulum of emotional states that defines our attitude toward the future.” —The New Yorker

“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” —Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe

Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future—and a family—under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?

  • Published: 19 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9780143136538
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

Praise for Warmth

Advance praise for Warmth:

"[Warmth] is neither a prescription for hope or for despair, but a call for a clear-eyed examination of one of the most pressing questions of our time--what do we owe the next generation?" —Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather
 
“This book helped me do the impossible: live in the space between grief and hope.” —Jenny Odell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing

"Searchingly honest, this fine book is the work of someone actively engaged in the most important fight of our time (maybe of all time), and also of a writer able to establish the necessary distance. Dan Sherrell is smart, obviously, but he's something much more important: open, vulnerable, able to face fully that which we all must grapple with in this overheating century." —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

“In this insider account of the struggle for the earth against the forces of corporate greed that threaten it, Daniel Sherrell has written a tender letter to the uncertain future—at once intimate and angry, exasperated and brave.” —Anne Boyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Undying

"An urgent cri de coeur from a passionate and clear-eyed new talent." —Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future