NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY
THE NEW YORKER
AND
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“
[
Warmth
] is lyrical and erudite, engaging with science, activism, and philosophy . . . [Sherrell] captures the complicated correspondence between hope and doubt, faith and despair—the pendulum of emotional states that defines our attitude toward the future.
”
—
The New Yorker
“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” —Jenny Odell, author of
How to Do Nothing
From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe
is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future—and a family—under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism,
goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?