![]() ![]() Block will make you see, smell, hear, taste and feel Pen's story, and she will surely wisk you away into an inspiring, fantastical, Dali-esque dream world that you will never forget. Common Sense Mediaįrancesca Lia Block is the imaginative bestselling author of Weetzie Bat she brings a radiant, illuminating world of death, destruction and adventure in her novel Love in the Time of Global Warming. compelling apocalyptic survival story with four LGBTQ teens. Praise for Love in the Time of Global Warming: Love in the Time of Global Warming has shades of science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, and dystopic disaster. In her signature lyrical style, Francesca Lia Block has created a world that is beautiful in its destruction and as frightening as it is lovely. On her voyage, Pen learns to tell stories that reflect her strange visions, while she and her fellow surivors navigate the dangers that lie in wait. ![]() Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on humans, and a madman who wishes her dead. Kirkus ReviewsĪfter the Earth Shaker, which all but destroyed Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) sets out into the wasteland in search of her family, her journey guided by a tattered copy of Homer's Odyssey. ![]() There's something encouraging about seeing four queer kids on an epic journey across the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. From the bestselling author of Weetzie Bat comes a stunning reimagining of Homer's Odyssey, exploring love, queerness, and the devastation of the environment, set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.īlock's trademark magical realism works.
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