The first thousand trees

The first thousand trees

Premee Mohamed

Book - 2025

"After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: He sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle's village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place -- rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up -- isn't easy. Henryk strives to carve out a place of his own but learns that some corners of his broken world are darker than he could have imagined. This stunning novella concludes the story Moh...amed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain, bleaker than ever but still in search of a spark of hope in the climate apocalypse."--

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Subjects
Mohamed, Premee. > Annual migrations of clouds > 3.
Communities > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
Solitude > Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions) > Fiction.
Novellas.
Dystopian fiction.
Genres
Novellas
Dystopian fiction
Published
Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Premee Mohamed (author)
Physical Description
148 pages ; 21 cm
Issued also in electronic formats
ISBN
9781770417342
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Mohamed returns with the concluding novella in the Annual Migration of Clouds trilogy, ecohorror at its finest. Here, Henryk is fleeing his community through a postapocalyptic landscape. He has traveled to Sprucedown to find his uncle, Dex, hoping he can forge a new life there. The community members plant trees while on the lookout for raiders and the Red Flags, groups who cause a lot of death and misery and who want to consume the people in Sprucedown. Everyone is expected to put in their fair share of work, and Henryk soon learns that the other residents feel like he isn't pulling his weight. A series of attacks leaves several people dead, and Henryk has to help find the unaccounted for. Grief follows him everywhere as he finds a path that makes the most sense. Mohamed wraps up a tension-filled narrative of shock and survival that began with Reid in The Annual Migration of Clouds (2021) and brings everything full circle in the end. Recommended for public-library cli-fi collections.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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