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Jan 14, 2025 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Eiren Caffall |Isabelle McConville
B&N Reads, BN Discover, Fiction, Guest Post, We Recommend Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Haunting and unforgettable, All the Water in the World tells the story of a flooded world, and one family’s determination to keep their community alive. This all-too-prescient story introduces us to a fictional account of a possible dystopian future.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Eiren Caffall
It started with a phone call from my godfather. A few days after Superstorm Sandy, he called me from Brooklyn after he’d spent all night in the basement of his daughter’s building in Red Hook, using a sump pump to get salt water out of the basement. Article continues after advertisement“When I left the house,” he told me, “I almost broke my neck.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Eiren Caffall |Erica Ezeifedi
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Y’all, 2025 is already on some BS. Fable, an app that I had heard about a while ago (and low-key forgot about until now) has gone viral for something super cringey. They decided to “roast” the reading choices of their users, and one of the criticisms was that maybe they should read more white authors. Yeah.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Eiren Caffall
Nov. 2024. 294p. Row House, $27.99 (9781955905589). 810.
REVIEW.
First published November 1, 2024 ().
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Eiren Caffall
Jan. 2025. 304p. St. Martin’s, $29 (9781250353528); e-book (9781250353535).
REVIEW.
First published November 1, 2024 (Booklist).
A cadre of scientists and staff, and their families, have been living on the roof of the closed American Museum of Natural History in a ravaged, mostly abandoned New York City, venturing down into Central Park to forage and hunt. But their sanctuary is destroyed when a superstorm breaches the city’s floodwalls.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Eiren Caffall
I am a nature writer during ecocollapse. I have an incurable genetic kidney disease, polycystic kidney disease (PKD), inherited from my father, that has tracked down our family for more than one hundred and fifty years, and killed most of us before we reached fifty. After facing those twin tragedies, you’d think I’d be reading cat mysteries, romances, books about gardening. Instead, I find myself in indie bookstores looking for books about shipwrecks.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
writersdigest.com | Eiren Caffall
I came up with the title The Mourner’s Bestiary years before I knew how to write it. It was a decade ago, when I worked as a freelance blogger for Tikkun Daily and could send them an essay every month about whatever topic I liked in the realm of the environment and spirituality, animals, parenting, and my feelings about the age of ecocollapse. I was a young mother with an incurable genetic kidney disease and the daughter of a woman working at the front lines in the EPA.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Eiren Caffall
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Eiren Caffall’s memoirThe Mourner’s Bestiary conflates her own genetic illness with the degradation of marine ecosystems profoundly and acutely in one of the year’s best books.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Eiren Caffall |Raja Shehadeh |Cory Richards |Adrian Daub
Ta-Nehisi Coates. One World, $29 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-23038-1Coates (Between the World and Me) delivers an incandescent rebuke of journalists—including himself—for parroting ideological narratives that reify Palestine’s oppression.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Eiren Caffall |Raja Shehadeh |Cory Richards |Adrian Daub
Jaleel White. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-6680-6889-2Actor White discusses the “double-edged sword” of his breakout role on the 1990s sitcom Family Matters in this intriguing if tight-lipped debut. The focus is squarely on White’s career: he booked his first commercial at four years old (for Toys R Us), then stepped back from auditioning in middle school. His parents, however, encouraged him to continue acting, hoping the money could help pay for college.
