Paperback, 126 pages
Published Sept. 28, 2022 by Stelliform Press.
In looping, linked stories that travel through generations, Campbell explores the effects of climate change on one slice of British Columbia: what might happen as the planet changes, and how regular people might remake their homes by growing together and reconsidering other, gentler ways to live in a drastically reshaped world.
This is engrossing: the author doesn’t flinch about the effects of climate change but people and nature adapt. You don’t have to fix the world to make things better.
Arboreality is a collection of loosely connected stories set on an ecologically devastated near future Vancouver Island. Campbell offers up the full effects of human greed and short-sightedness but also human and natural resilience. A quick read. Recommended.
