Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

By Daniel Sherrell

An exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe, written by a millennial climate activist to his future unborn child

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272

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A BEST BOOK OF 2021, THE NEW YORKER AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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, Daniel 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?

Read if you: have literally declined meeting friends because it's too hot out.