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The rooftop garden / Menaka Raman-Wilms.

Summary:

The rooftop garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back. The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when Nabila, obsessed with how the climate crisis will cause oceans to rise, created an elaborate imaginary world where much of the land has flooded. She and Matthew would play their game on her rooftop garden, the only oasis in an abandoned city being claimed by water. Their childhood experiences reveal how their lives are on different trajectories, even at an early stage: Nabila comes from an educated, middle-class family, while Matthew had been abandoned by his father and was often left to deal with things on his own. As an adult, Matthew's dissatisfaction with life leads him to join a group of young men who are angry at society. He eventually finds himself on a violent suicide mission, but Nabila isn't aware of the extent of his radicalization until they finally meet on a street in Berlin.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780889714380(trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 207 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
Subject: Climatic changes > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Radicalism > Fiction.
Radicalization > Fiction.
Roof gardening > Fiction.
Urban gardens > Fiction.
Women biologists > Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) > Fiction.
Toronto (Ontario) > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 8 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Kitimat Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Kitimat Public Library Ram (Text) 32665002375188 Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-12-30
Gibsons Public Library FIC RAMA (Text) 30886001124623 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Hazelton Public Library Fic (Text) 35154000210363 Adult Fiction - Main Floor Volume hold Available -
Kimberley Public Library F RAM (Text) 35137001074730 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Prince Rupert Library Rama (Text) 33294002169068 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Available -
Quesnel Branch RAM (Text) 33923006537124 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Sechelt Public Library F RAMA (Text) 33260100146803 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Terrace Public Library RAM (Text) 35151001171453 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch F RAM (Text) 35110001435102 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -


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