Warmth

From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe

"Strikingly perceptive." -Jenny Offill, author of Weather

"Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest." -Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

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

Warmth 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, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time- how do we go on in a world that may not?