Review: Migrations

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Author Charlotte McConaghy has offered up an elegiac look at a not too distant future world in which the majority of the earth's species have died off due to climate change. Franny Stone is a woman running from a tragic past, fulfilling a promise of sorts, to track the last migration of the few remaining arctic terns. Arctic terns have the longest migration of any species of bird, traveling some 25,000 miles each year as they migrate from pole to pole. When we meet Franny, she is in Greenland, seeking passage on a fishing vessel which would let her follow the terns (who wear tracking bands) on what is likely their final journey to Antarctica. She finds Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani, and his crew, and manages, despite a steep lack of experience, to find passage on their fishing vessel because of the fact that her tracking information about the terns may also yield information about where the fish are. (Birds have to eat!) As Franny's heartbreaking personal story is revealed, we see parallels to the starkness of a world with few animals left in it. Everyone in this story struggles for connections, just as the natural world is hanging together by a thread.

This is an achingly beautiful redemption story about the power of human connection. It is also a compelling reminder of what lies ahead if our species fails to correct the course we are on.

I received a digital and audio review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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