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The Light Pirate

Auteur(s): Lily Brooks-Dalton
Narrateur(s): Rosemary Benson
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 RUNNER-UP FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world: A “symphony of beauty and heartbreak” (Associated Press).

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A Good Morning America Book Club pick · #1 Indie Next pick · LibraryReads pick · Book of the Month Club selection · Marie Claire #ReadWithMC book club selection · 2022 NPR “Book We Love” · New York Times Editors’ Choice

Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before.

As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature.

Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.
 Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Aventure Catastrophe naturelle Floride Pirate

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“This is one of the most daring, deeply imagined and moving novels I have read. The writer asks us to consider a near-apocalyptic future, but, in prose that is beautiful and precise, Brooks-Dalton offers us hope that we are capable of remaking this world as a gentler and more generous-hearted place. Readers will not forget this beautiful book.”—Meredith Hall, Author of Beneficence
"I read this book in a whirlwind, voracious as the hurricanes at its heart. Lily Brooks-Dalton writes with the kind of intricate sensitivity that leaves one grateful to be—faultily, flimsily, adaptably, temporarily—human. Harrowing, tender, and urgent, The Light Pirate is a novel of global scope and exquisite intimacy."—Rachel Lyon, Author of Self-Portrait With Boy
"Lily Brooks-Dalton is an audacious, exquisite writer whose work pulses with humanity and hope. In The Light Pirate, her mesmerizing new novel, Brooks-Dalton achieves the impossible: she leaves us feeling grateful to be alive even as she describes, with pinpoint precision, the end of the world as we know it. Gripping, poetic, and wholly original, this book changed how I see the future. I’ll never forget it."—Jillian Medoff, Author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful
"This is fiction of rare and riveting achievement: it is equal parts prophecy, elegy, and revelation. The Light Pirate describes a world much like ours, one of rising seas and changing coastlines, and peers around the corner into the future to show us what awaits. How will human beings endure such loss? How will we mourn, and how will we persist? Lily Brooks-Dalton has captured the fragile beauty of our world, and our lives, with a tenderness that is both moving and galvanizing." —Anna Pitoniak, Author of Our American Friend
"Lily Brooks-Dalton is an uncanny chronicler of desolate spaces, whether it’s the cold expanse of the universe or the deepest recesses of the human heart.”—Colson Whitehead, New York Times bestselling author (praise for Good Morning, Midnight)
"Lily Brooks-Dalton is wonderful, fresh on the scene with a big heart, a fierce spirit, a writer's eye, and a lovely sense of humor.”—Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author (praise for Good Morning, Midnight)
"Fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora will appreciate Brooks-Dalton’s exquisite exploration of relationships in extreme environments."—Washington Post (praise for Good Morning, Midnight)
"Brooks-Dalton writes beautifully about ambition, loss, grief, and, most compellingly, what it means to love and be loved."—Fredricksburg Free Lance-Star (praise for Good Morning, Midnight)
"Lily Brooks-Dalton has blazed a trail all her own."—Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men
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I much enjoyed the book and would love so much more. The characters are easy to wrap yourself around. I love end of work type stories and this one was a wonderful surprise a new look. Generally it’s zombies or viruses this is a pleasant new look on adaptation to the “change” in the world. Loved it!!!

Lots of room to visualize

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Slow start but this book grabbed me more
and more with each chapter. It is a cautionary tale that contains some frightening predictions. But it a book that we all need to read and consider carefully. At this time we need to take heed and makes many changes so that this is not the future of mankind

Slow start

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I have never given all 5s before for a book. Really great read, really great listen
. Amazing ratings. Beautiful characters, incredible to think about what our world is becoming.

Deserves at least two thumbs up

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Beautifully crafted. Spellbinding. And amongst the characters and story a vision of what if. The strong message of attachment and connection intermingled with the importance of adaptation was gripping.

Prophetic of a ew Paradigm

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Usually I’m ok with any narrator but i felt like she was teaching a kindergarten class instead if reading a book. Started to drive me crazy. simple text probably didn’t help. Not highly fiction by any means: a bit repetitive, spelled things out when she didn’t need to, but a fairly good story. Could have been much better if she allowed the readers to grow up a little and the narrator did not help. Couldnt finish.

Good story. Narrator not good

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Beautifully written nature and environmental story, where the air, the land, and the water are characters equal to the protagonists.

Brooks-Dalton cultivates a world as vivid and resonant as an Annie Dillard landscape. (For an example refer to Dillard’s personification of a sky and field in “The Field,”
Teaching a Stone to Talk.)

Lyrical

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It was an easy and entertaining listen. I really enjoyed it. Painted a lovely story!

Entertaining listen

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