![]() The stories are imagined but one day the building will be finished and people will move in and make their lives within. People have already described the novel as a “climate change” story, but at what point do we stop pretending that “climate change” is an object, a thing, separate from our current world? Yes, the book is fiction, but reading about the urban hellscape within is more akin to imagining the lives that people may one day lead in a building that is currently in construction. That the events taking place in the book could in fact, transpire, is one of the things that make it such a compelling read. “The stories always kind of take a fabulous turn where things happen that really can't happen, but the novel is speculative,” Cook explains, “So I really wanted it to be something that though unlikely or maybe feeling absurd at times, it definitely could happen, transpire.” ![]() ![]() She quickly realized that although it had a similar theme to the stories she was working on, it was meant to be part of something bigger. It was while writing those short stories that the idea for The New Wilderness came to her. Nature, also mined the juxtaposition of our “civilized” world with our own animalistic human instincts. Cook’s previous book of short stories, 2015’s Man v. It’s hard not to read into how being surrounded by this stark contrast landscape influenced her. ![]()
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