RaveThe Washington Post\"At long last, someone has finally gotten it right. In Chesapeake Requiem, author Earl Swift masterfully reveals Tangier as it is — a proud but struggling community of fewer than 500 people trying to hold on to what they can amid unending hardship and isolation ... Though Chesapeake Requiem is cast as something of a Hillbilly Elegy for this seaside attraction, Swift makes a compelling case that the story of Tangier is far more consequential: It is probably the first community in America that will be entirely wiped away by climate change ... The result is an intimate, meticulously reported and captivating account of life on the island.\
