A stunning love letter to planet Earth. On our dying planet—scratch that. Earth is dead, a remnant of its former glorious self. Sand and garbage intimate a landscape of devastation and demise. Some humans have survived depopulation, "depop," to eke out an existence amid the swirling dust and debris. In this desolate world, awkward Dylan, “a nerd, and not in a cool way,” meets Melanie, who may or may not be a robot. Theirs is also a love story.
With Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth has penned a speculative novel about resilience and impermanence that conjures the shattering of a civilization and the collapse of a whole planet. It is funny and surprising, and bold with imagination.
