Body Weather

“This forthright account of being ‘in a sick body on a sickening planet’ is recommended to readers of Elizabeth Kolbert and Terry Tempest Williams.”
—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review

“Recommend this haunting, heartbreaking, yet still hopeful title to readers who like to feel everything they read.”
—Library Journal

“A dazzling kaleidoscope of natural and personal history crackling with intelligence … Lorraine Boissoneault is a force of nature.”
—Sarah McColl, author of Joy Enough

“From grand sweeps of scientific history to poignant slices of memoir, Body Weather connects the challenges of the planet to the trials of the body and dares to imagine a future where we address both with humanity. It’s a singular, stunning book.”
—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of An Immense World

“Body Weather refuses the distance between personal collapse and planetary collapse, insisting, with unflinching honesty, that these crises are one and the same. She writes from inside a sick body on a sick planet and, in doing so, creates something far more urgent than forecast or diagnosis: a reckoning.”
—Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias

“Lorraine Boissoneault elegantly twines our unstable bodies and ravaged planet and demands an upwelling of care for us all. Body Weather is revelatory, enraging, and nothing less than a paean to survival.”
—Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches

“A lyrical, unflinching look at what it means to live in a sick body, on a sick planet … By taking us on her journey, [Lorraine] teaches us not to live without grief—but alongside it.”
—Rachel E. Gross, author of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Lorraine Boissoneault is a writer and journalist covering science, history, travel, and current events. Author of The Last Voyageurs, Boissoneault has previously been a staff writer for Smithsonian Magazine and an editor for The Weather Channel. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Playboy, Catapult, Audubon, Slate, and many other outlets.

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