An intimate yet wide-sweeping story of a marine biologist working to save ocean ecosystems from climate change.

With the world?s oceans ravaged by climate change, ?meraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the Arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean that will save her when the world she leaves behind is irrevocably changed.

Stories of ?meraude?s ancestors ? a young sailor abandoned at birth, a conjuror who mixes potions for her neighbours, a violent young man who hides in the woods to escape an even more violent war, and a talented young singer born to a mother who cannot speak ? weave their way through her intimate reflections on a modest life, unknowingly shaped by those who came before.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK

• An intimate climate fiction story that examines the staying power of the human race through the story of a marine biologist and her ancestors
• Narrator is a marine biologist studying the ocean, living on the research vessel, studying microorganisms that might be the answer to save the world
• A beautifully grim and chilling story in succinct, precise prose
• Author is a member of the Innu Nation and the author of the literary thriller Of Vengeance, which won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Prose