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A painted map of New England in green without any political boundaries. The edges of the map image are streaky and uneven, suggesting a mural on a yellow wall. In the lower left, in front on the mural, sits a young, Black woman dressed like a hiker. She stairs wistfully up to the right top corner.

Ecological Memory

by Caroline Ailanthus

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Elzy Rodriguez still can't remember how--or where--she survived the fall of civilization. It's been twenty years. All she has now is a few memories of the trees she played among as a child. Fortunately, Elzy is apprenticed to the brilliant and mysterious itinerant ecologist, Andy Cote. If anyone can figure out where the forests of her memory grew, he can. But Andy, too, is lost. When the old civilization fell, his son vanished. Now he has questions he can neither answer nor let go. In helping Elzy reclaim her home, can Andy, too, find peace? Part scientific detective story, part post-apocalyptic travelogue, Ecological Memory is at heart a tale about what happens after you lose everything.

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About the author

I'm a writer, an editor, and, at the moment, a dish-washer. Perhaps I shouldn't admit to being a professional dish-washer. It's not cool or polished or literary. But I've reached that point in my life when I just do not care about certain kinds of BS anymore. Yes, I wash dishes. I do a lot of my pre-writing while washing dishes. I have a BA in Environmental Leadership and an MS in Conservation Biology. I use both to write lots of things, but mostly fiction. I have a husband who can sail a boat, drive an ambulance, and make a mean white pizza. We have two beagle-mixes and three cats, one of whom has a total of 21 toes. I used to have a cat who would fall asleep beside my keyboard with her nose on the letter, Q. I miss her.

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