Description: A wildly rambling collection of nature, books, stories, backyard farming, ecology, permaculture
Thank you to the publisher, Grove Atlantic via Net Galley, for an advanced reading copy of this literary fiction novel about Earth from space.
This book review is also published on NetGalley.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey is an astute and astounding perspective of Earth, told through the eyes, hearts and minds of four [fictional] astronauts (American, Japanese, British, Italian) and two cosmonauts (Russian) who live just above Earth in a space station. They observe and reflect on our strange and fascinating planet and our weird human propensity to nurture and simultaneously destroy everything excellent on Earth. Harvey’s capacity to contrast extremes makes for moving reading. When expressing the ph