3.5 stars.

Climate fiction meets Where the Crawdads Sing. Atmospheric writing captures the dystopian setting of flooded Florida amidst climate changes that have extended and hardened the annual hurricane season. The majority of the plot follows young Wanda, named for the hurricane she was born during, as she makes her way in the near apocalyptic setting.

A good survivalist story and climate fiction exploration, but the magical realism component just didn't work for me. It felt a bit extraneous and really wasn't very well explored. If this piece had been removed from the plot, I think the resulting literary fiction style novel would have been much stronger. That aside, the writing is good and there are some wonderful explorations of human relationships and the ways in which we adapt. The prose can be incredibly beautiful and the story is well-explored. The pacing can be a bit slow and the events mildly repetitive during the middle section of the book, but there are quite a few momentous occasions that keep the narrative revived and drive home the humanity at the center of the tale.

An interesting read for certain and a mostly realistic examination of the potential effects of climate change.