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Rabbit Island, Elvira Navarro

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 14, 2021 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 14, 2021

Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island traverse the fickle, … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Fauna, Short Stories, Weird Fiction | Tagged Elvira Navarro | Leave a reply

Strange Birds, Celia C. Perez

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 4, 2021 by Kimberly ChristensenJanuary 2, 2022

Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers, Celia C. Perez Middle Grade Fiction Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen In Sabal Palms, Florida, many girls join … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Children's, Fauna, Reviews, Reviews-Youth, Spotlight, Turning the Tide, YA/Teen | Leave a reply

Forest World, Margarita Engle

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on December 6, 2020 by Kimberly ChristensenDecember 7, 2020

Middle Grade Fiction Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Edver and his mother left Cuba when he was just a baby. His father stayed behind and Edver … Read more

Posted in Adventure, All, Books, Children's, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Fauna, Reviews, Reviews-Youth, YA/Teen | Tagged Margarita Engle | Leave a reply

Indie Corner – Ian Boyd and Gary Luck

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on November 25, 2020 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 3, 2021

Back to the Indie Corner series I was happy to meet Ian Boyd and Gary Luck by way of their new children’s novel Melody Finch, … Read more

Posted in Adventure, All, Books, Children's, Fauna, Indie Corner, YA/Teen | Tagged Gary Luck, Ian Boyd | Leave a reply

Sky Dance, John D. Burns

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on September 24, 2020 by Mary WoodburySeptember 24, 2020

Full title: Sky Dance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish Highlands In his first two bestselling books, The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, John … Read more

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Talking Animals, Joni Murphy

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on August 25, 2020 by Mary WoodburyAugust 25, 2020

In this novel, at last, nature kvetches and grieves, while talking animals offer us a kind of solace in the guise of dumb jokes. This … Read more

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Where the Oceans Hide their Dead, John Yunker

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on March 10, 2020 by Mary WoodburyJuly 6, 2020

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more

Posted in Fauna, Interviews, Spotlight, World Eco-Fiction | Leave a reply

A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on March 2, 2020 by Mary WoodburyJuly 6, 2020

Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities–once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon … Read more

Posted in Adventure, All, Books, Fantasy, Fauna, YA/Teen | Tagged Jeff VanderMeer | Leave a reply

The Suicide Season, Jeremy Gadd

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on February 11, 2020 by Mary WoodburyJuly 6, 2020

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more

Posted in Fauna, Features, Spotlight, World Eco-Fiction | 1 Reply

Song for a Whale, Lynne Kelly

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 16, 2020 by Kimberly ChristensenAugust 19, 2020

Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly Middle Grade Fiction Sometimes a book just stops you in your tracks and demands … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Children's, Contemporary, Fauna, Reviews, Reviews-Youth | Tagged Lynne Kelly | Leave a reply

Split Tooth, Tanya Taqaq

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 5, 2020 by Mary WoodburyAugust 29, 2020

This book is being read and discussed at the Cambridge Ecofiction Bookclub in January 2020. According to Goodreads, Veering back and forth between the grittiest … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Fauna, Indigenous, Literary, Magical Realism | Tagged Tanya Tagaq | Leave a reply

Ned Hayes’ The Eagle Tree

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on December 6, 2019 by Kimberly ChristensenDecember 20, 2021

The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes (Little A, 2016) Young adult contemporary fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen To say that fourteen-year-old March Wong loves trees … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Fauna, Flora, Reviews, Reviews-Youth, YA/Teen | Tagged Ned Hayes | 1 Reply

Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on October 30, 2019 by Mary WoodburyJuly 6, 2020

Near future. South Texas. Narcotics are legal and there’s a new contraband on the market: ancient Olmec artifacts, shrunken indigenous heads, and filtered animals—species of … Read more

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on October 18, 2019 by Mary WoodburyJuly 6, 2020

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (originally titled Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych). Man Booker International Prize Nominee (2019). Olga is also a Nobel prize winner in literature … Read more

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No Entry, Gila Green

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on September 10, 2019 by Mary WoodburyDecember 20, 2021

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more

Posted in Adventure, All, Books, Contemporary, Crime/Detective, Cultural/Regional, Fauna, Features, Interviews, Romance, Spotlight, World Eco-Fiction | Tagged Gila Green | 2 Replies

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