Description:
When a biologist finds thylacines at an isolated facility, she knows that Grief-a melancholy linked to environmental devastation-is here and the dead are coming. But in the fallout of her friend's death, can she stand for the living?
Brief description: Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication. She attended Clarion West 2016, has won four Sir Julius Vogel awards for speculative fiction, and is a Bram Stoker nominee. She was the 2020 writer in residence at Massey University, where she wrote this novella.
Review Quotes:
"Cade's strength shines in her beautiful descriptions ... This thoughtful work is a reminder of humanity's connection and responsibility to the natural world." - Publishers Weekly
"Echoing Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation and Rita Indiana's Tentacle, Cade pushes climate fiction deeper, asking the reader to reflect, consider, and repent.." - Alexander Pyles for The Chicago Review of Books
"Uncanny, unsettling, brilliant, etcetera; as well as the thylacines there are jellyfish, robots, rock wrens, rats, and a new kind of psychological devastation that flourishes and evolves as everything else collapses. Called simply "Grief", it is contagious, and hard to spot, and it feels like a creature that's already here." - Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff Book Report
"The Impossible Resurrection of Grief will haunt you. An examination of the emotional resonance of extinction through well-wrought characters, the book's themes of connection and loss and the crushing burden of caring are revealed by Cade's signature lyrical prose in an all-too plausible near future. There are no easy answers to be found here, but Cade offers a glimpse toward a way through the grief of both everyday and extraordinary losses." - Nebula Award finalist M. Darusha Wehm, author of The Voyage of the White Cloud