6/28/2023 0 Comments Thorn by Anna Burke![]() ![]() Its main character Rose was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins. ![]() The novel takes place in the future, in the West Indies. This month I spotlight Anna Burke and her novel Compass Rose ( Bywater Books, 2018), a dystopian high-seas adventure that examines climate refugees, hanging ocean ecosystems, and ways humanity might adapt to rising, warmer oceans while also following the protagonist as she comes of age in an unforgiving-but highly relatable-world. Adam Kirsch, The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century The local gains dignity, and significance, insofar as it can be seen as a part of a worldwide phenomenon. Life lived here is experienced in its profound and often unsettling connections with life lived elsewhere, and everywhere. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the abolition of place, but as a theme by which place is mediated. ![]() The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. ![]()
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