Awake in the Floating City 9781398543393 Paperback

Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2026 – a climate fiction novel with a dystopian world as its setting and at its heart is a human story about compassion in times of great adversity – for fans ofStation ElevenandBirnam Wood.Susanna Kwan writes climate change into the grain of ordinary life, allowing us into the intimate world of loss, love and attentionKit de Waal, Climate Fiction Prize judge commented onAwake in the Floating CityAn astonishing work of art…This is the kind of book that changes you, that leaves you seeing more vividly, and living more fully, in its wakeRachel Khong, author ofReal AmericansGorgeous, lush, struck with humor and light, so warm, caring and care-taking, luminous and wiseMeng Jin, author ofLittle GodsIn a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed artist, is grieving the community shes lost to catastrophic flooding.Her friends and family have disappeared or fled, the streets are rivers, and the buildings are falling apart.Yet on the day of her planned departure, Bo finds a note slipped under her door: I need help, it reads. Three days a week, afternoons. Can pay in cash.Unable to bring herself to board the ship that could save her life, Bo instead chooses to answer the note, which turns out to have been written by her neighbour Mia, a 130-year-old supercentenarian long abandoned by her own family.