Rachel Lebowitz

I was really looking forward to a non-fiction account of the Year of No Summer and its connection to our modern climate crisis, which is what the book was billed as on the back.

Unfortunately, that's not what I got.

There are long, meandering passages about her experience of being pregnant, for what reason god alone knows, and interesting and gruesome facts about every kind of disaster she has facts for, from WWI to other volcanic eruptions to earthquakes to disease outbreaks, with the show more transitions so disjointed that I couldn't even be sure what disaster I was reading about at any given time. What was the point of this? I'm not even sure what information in there was about the volcanic eruption in question, it was so unclear to me what subject she was writing on at any given time. show less

Won this book from the Fraser Valley Poetry contest.