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Pure Colour, Sheila Heti

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on April 13, 2022 by Mary WoodburyApril 13, 2022

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, … Read more

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A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 3, 2022 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 3, 2022

Darcie Little Badger introduced herself to the world with Elatsoe. In A Snake Falls to Earth, she draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Indigenous, LGTBQ+, Magical Realism, Myth & Folklore, Science Fiction | Tagged Darcie Little Badger | Leave a reply

The China Garden, Liz Berry

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on December 21, 2021 by Mary WoodburyFebruary 24, 2022

When Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can’t shake the feeling that the residents already know her, … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Mystery, Romance, YA/Teen | Tagged Liz Berry | Leave a reply

Strange Beasts of China, Yan GE

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on September 22, 2021 by Mary WoodburyDecember 20, 2021

The novel’s environmental ethos is also very much of the now, with numerous, vivid descriptions of urban decay competing with the natural world. As an … Read more

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The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on September 12, 2021 by Mary WoodburyDecember 20, 2021

In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, memory and … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Flora, Historical, Literary, Magical Realism | Tagged Elif Shafak | Leave a reply

Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on July 5, 2021 by Mary WoodburyJuly 5, 2021

Commencing in “our times” and set in the “Free Republic of Aburĩria,” the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Literary, Magical Realism | Tagged Ngugi wa thiong'o | Leave a reply

The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on July 5, 2021 by Mary WoodburyJuly 5, 2021

The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea … Read more

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Popisho, Leone Ross

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on May 2, 2021 by Mary WoodburyMay 2, 2021

A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Fantasy, Literary, Magical Realism, Speculative | Tagged Leone Ross | Leave a reply

Crow Winter, Karen McBride

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on April 23, 2021 by Mary WoodburyApril 23, 2021

Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to help … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Literary, Magical Realism, Mystery | Tagged Karen McBride | Leave a reply

Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on April 23, 2021 by Mary WoodburyDecember 20, 2021

The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Flora, Magical Realism, Short Stories, Speculative | Tagged Nalo Hopkinson | Leave a reply

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 31, 2021 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 31, 2021

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Dystopian, Literary, Magical Realism, Science Fiction | Tagged Richard Flanagan | Leave a reply

Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger

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

Little Badger’s debut novel, “Elatsoe”… is a young adult fantasy about a 17-year-old Lipan Apache girl who can awaken the ghosts of dead animals and … Read more

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Potiki, Patricia Grace

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on June 2, 2020 by Mary WoodburyJune 2, 2020

‘Destroy the land and sea, we destroy ourselves.’ On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds land and sea, a small … Read more

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Sharks in the Time of Saviours, Kawai Strong Washburn

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on June 2, 2020 by Mary WoodburyJune 2, 2020

In 1994 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from drowning by a shiver of sharks. His family, struggling to make ends meet amidst … Read more

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Pani Mar Raha Hai, Amna Mufti

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on May 27, 2020 by Mary WoodburyMay 27, 2020

With her latest novel on water crisis, “Paani Mar Raha Hai”, Mufti has not only contributed to the bourgeoning field of Literary Environmental Studies, but … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Magical Realism | Tagged Amna Mufti | 1 Reply

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