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The First Thousand Trees
The First Thousand Trees | Premee Mohamed
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“One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction.” — Booklist “In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse.” — Quill & Quire, starred review After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: He sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle’s village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place — rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up — isn’t easy. Henryk strives to carve out a place of his own but learns that some corners of his broken world are darker than he could have imagined. This stunning novella concludes the story Mohamed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain, bleaker than ever but still in search of a spark of hope in the climate apocalypse.
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4/5

After being isolated by his community, Henryk travels to his uncle's town, but they've reacted to the climate apocalypse by becoming insular, and Henryk struggles to find his place on his own.

I was frustrated at Henryk's choices early in the book, but overall I thought this was a good conclusion of the trilogy where both Reid and Henryk leave home and find understanding about how to live in the aftermath of apocalypse.

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