Author(s): Lieke Marsman

Climate

 When Ida, a Dutch climatologist, accepts an internship at a climate research institute in the Italian Alps, it means leaving her girlfriend Robin behind inAmsterdam. As she and her new colleagues prepare to demolish a decommissioned hydropower dam, Ida finds herself grappling with love, loneliness andher place in a society unwilling to confront global warming.An unflinchingly honest narrative of vulnerability, longing and introspection is disrupted by essays and poems, creating an incisive, witty and devastatinglysmart portrait of how we live now. Distilling all our contemporary fears, Marsman examines what we must face head on if we - individuals, humanity,the world - are to survive. And she asks us: if we are to survive, what is ourimpetus? For what are we fighting?