PositiveThe AtlanticBy exploring four extraordinary bodies of water and the people and laws aiming to protect them, Macfarlane examines a question whose time has come, whether we like it or not ... Extending out from this water body is a rich web of human allies, each of whom plays a key role in its protection. Macfarlane makes this web visible ... Is a River Alive? illustrates what resistance to extraction can look like on the ground, and also what might be awakened in us when we begin to live with rivers, recognizing them as co-creators of our past, our present, and—more and more—our future.
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewAs interested in identifying the causes of the climate crisis as it is in offering a kind of alternative account of life in the wake of environmental apocalypse ... Goffe’s narrative moves so rapidly among disciplines...that it’s easy to lose track of where or when we are in space and time ... A noble and necessary, if at times unwieldy, example of what one such genre might look like, offering readers a novel account of post-colonial resistance, regeneration and survival.
