Likeable and really readable climate fiction novel that doesn't shy away from the economic conflict that comes in the wake of environmental devastation. The difference between the haves and the have-nots is fairly staple in dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction, of course, but this is still nicely done. I'm undecided about Ross, though. The privileged teen son of the president, he's clearly extremely sheltered and has a deeply unrealistic view of his father and the world his father is creating. The scales fall off his eyes early in the narrative, but part of me wonders if I wouldn't find Adam the more sympathetic protagonist. The friendship between them, barely sketched as it is, is certainly more interesting to me than the romance between Ross and Marin (which is all fairness pretty thin itself).

The most interesting thing about this, though, comes in the author's note at the beginning of the book, which records her grandmother's imprisonment in a Japanese interment camp in the US during WW2. That has had a clear influence on the direction of the book, and every parallel that's drawn out in the story here has the weight of history and family grief in it.