Books like A Guardian and a Thief
In a near-future Kolkata gripped by famine, Ma, who runs a shelter, is a week from joining her husband in Michigan with her father and baby daughter when Boomba, a young man from the shelter, breaks into their flat looking for food and takes their passports and climate visas.
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Wild Dark Shore
Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica that houses a vault of the world's seeds, and as the seas rise around them, a mysterious woman washes up on the shore.
A Burning
Jivan, a young Muslim woman from a Kolkata slum, is arrested for a terrorist attack on a train after a careless Facebook post, and two people who could help her have ambitions of their own.
The Light Pirate
Wanda is born during a hurricane in a small Florida town, and as she grows up the water keeps rising and the state, and her family, start to come apart.
The Sea and Summer
In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
A virus released by terrorists means every pregnant woman in the world now dies, and Jessie Lamb, sixteen, writes her account from the room where her father has locked her up to stop what she has decided to do.
The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
Northern Spy
Tessa, a BBC producer in Belfast on maternity leave, watches the news of an IRA robbery and sees her sister Marian on screen, pulling on a balaclava.
Culpability
When the family minivan, driving itself with seventeen-year-old Charlie behind the wheel, crashes during a trip, the Cassidy-Shaws have to decide who is to blame, while the mother, an expert on the ethics of artificial intelligence, keeps secrets of her own.
A Fine Balance
In 1975, during India's State of Emergency, a widowed seamstress in an unnamed city by the sea takes in two tailors from a village and a student from the mountains, and the four make an unlikely household.
Land of Milk and Honey
With crops failing under a smog that has covered the world, a chef takes a job cooking for a secretive colony of the very rich on an Italian mountaintop, where real ingredients still exist.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
Our Missing Hearts
Bird Gardner, twelve, lives in a quiet America where laws against un-American behaviour have made Asian Americans suspects, and three years after his mother, a Chinese-American poet, left without a word, a letter from her arrives.