The Library of Ice
Copyright 2019, Scribner UK
Climate Change
The potential of all these boxes of books strikes me once I’ve got them up the stairs. I’ve lived without the familiar volumes so long. As I pull them into the light, I realize how many stories I’d forgotten. I had carried a few shadowy tales around in the chambers of my memory. Now my tiny flat was transformed into a palace with infinite rooms: records of different pasts, and dreams of many possible futures.