Caffall, Eiren
Entry updated 23 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US musician and author, much of whose nonfiction work has focused on Ecological issues and the consequences of Climate Change; The Mourner's Bestiary (2024) deals with the effects of ecocollapse on an individual human being like herself. She is of specific sf interest for her first novel, All the Water in the World (2024), set in a devastated, partially flooded New York; the protagonist's instinct to attempt to preserve some record of human achievement is signalled (and intensified) by her residence in a small colony of survivors atop the American Museum of Natural History. The Disaster of a super-flood puts this endeavour at risk. Some hope remains at the end that the room tone of the world will change, that planetary grief may lessen. [JC]
Eiren Caffall
born USA
works
- All the Water in the World (New York: St Martin's Press, 2024) [hb/]
nonfiction
- The Mourner's Bestiary (New York: Row House Publishing, 2024) [nonfiction: hb/]
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