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Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World
by Kaitlyn Teer
A thoughtful, evocative, and urgently needed collection that reimagines the stories we tell about motherhood, climate change, and the end of the world as we know it.
How do you raise children in a world rapidly being reshaped by climate change? How do our narratives about climate change and care help us or hinder us in our efforts to get it right? Little Apocalypses seeks to explore these urgent questions, helping us navigate the existential predicament of parenting on a planet in crisis.
In this collection of beautifully crafted essays, Kaitlyn Teer—herself the mother of two young children—blends personal narrative, cultural analysis, and wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary research to offer new ways for readers to think more deeply and more hopefully about the radical possibilities of caregiving to bring a more just and sustainable future into being. In "World Without End" Teer examines the apocalyptic rhetoric that shapes our understanding of the climate crisis and shows us where to find new stories that can shape our imaginations of what's still possible. In "Mother of All Messes" Teer considers the pressures to perform green motherhood and calls for refocusing efforts to collective action on for mutual flourishing. Teer's writing overflows with love for her children, her community, and the natural world, and offers an invitation to face the uncertain future with curiosity and imagination.
A thoughtful and eye-opening look at the power of caregiving in crisis, Little Apocalypses is a call to action—an invitation to parents to become active participants in carving a different path forward for all of us, our children, and our planet.
"A tender and trenchant essay collection about motherhood and fears of the future." —Kirkus Reviews
"A must read for climate-conscious parents." —Publishers Weekly
"Raw, undeniable, and tender—Little Apocalypses digs deep into what it means to parent in a heated world. Teer's voice holds both the ache of looming climate chaos and the unshakable hope that caring can change everything." —Kate Baer, New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman
"These radiant essays glow like embers cupped in two hands—tender, crackling with wonder, full of the small astonishments and seeds that flare even in our hardest seasons. Little Apocalypses reminds us that even as the world tilts and trembles, there is still sweetness, still a wild and holy glitter of joy to gather and keep." —Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders
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Kaitlyn Teer is a senior editor at Cup of Jo. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult, Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and she has taught writing at Western Washington University. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and two children.
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