Snowflake AZ.

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON FIRST EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. FNL. * Date of Publication: 2019 * Publisher: Zephyr.* Binding and cover condition: White cloth covered boards, metallic red, decorated title to spine none to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a desert scene with red, black and white titles to face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. FINE. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 342 pp. text. iii pp. authors notes, bibliography, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Ash has lived in eight states in as many years. Mom has gone walkabout, but step-dad Jack is like a father, and stepbrother Bly the best anyone could wish for. When Bly goes missing too, Ash sets off to search for him – and finds something much bigger: the sickness of the world. Arriving in Snowflake, Arizona, Ash discovers Bly living with a community 6000 feet high in the wide red desert. They call themselves the Canaries and all suffer from some kind of environmental illness. They are ostracised by modern society, as it continues to ignore climate change, global warming and so much more of our self-inflicted poisoning of the planet. When Ash takes ill, the doctor's response is, 'it's all in your mind'. In a story spanning seven years with triumphs and tragedies, Ash learns how to live as the world is pushed to a point of no return. This humane and deeply thoughtful novel is about resilience, trust, family and love. * A copy of the 1st./1st. with no major cover or jacket faults reduced to GD by paper distortion.*