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I literally just finished this book five minutes ago and I'm still processing everything. I'm not sure if I can really discuss it without spoilers but I'll try...so here goes.

A prophetic dream haunts several generations of this family and force various members to make (heartwrenching? crazy? sad? traumatic?) decisions that spur them ultimately (and 200 years later) toward the revelatory meaning of the dream.

Yeah, that about sums it up. But it's also about climate crisis, familial wounds, healing those familial wounds, and how sometimes old hurts can be soothed...or not. Gods, there is a lot packed into this story. I loved it, I really did, but I'm trying to come to terms with it all. It's left open to where, if you're a pessimist, the ending is sad. If you're an optimist, there is hope in the ending.

Really trying to write how I see things happening beyond what was written in the book because I'm leaning towards the optimism. Read the book. It's a deep, moving, and well crafted story. ( )

This was a mish mash of What the Hell. We follow a family for many generations, with prominent themes of child abuse and pedophilia. Climate change (I think) was the theme. I think I would have enjoyed the book more had it been packaged as generational mental illness and the long terms effects on a family rather than a science fiction story. And the bit on Mars, just plain filler to make up the page count. ( )

This book reminded me quite a lot of [b:Thrust|59089701|Thrust|Lidia Yuknavitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1637602298l/59089701._SY75_.jpg|93175111] by Lidia Yuknavitch. Like Thrust, it's perspective moves across time, skipping between characters, and there is a dream-like quality to both the book's construction and its prose. The result, for me, wasn't quite as rapturous and mind-blowing, but it was still quite enjoyable and thought-provoking. Recommended. ( )

Definitely one of my new favorite books. This story jumps back and forth over 300 years starting in the 1873 in America and ending in 2073 on the surface of Mars. The story is about a family and the gradual devastation of the planet due to climate change. The characters were wonderfully built and I felt very vested in their stories. The world building definitely struck close to home (I'm from Louisiana) with part of the story taking place in the "floating city" that was built in New Orleans after catastrophic flooding destroys the city.
Overall an intriguing yet dark look at our world and how it may survive the future if theories of climate change come to pass. ( )