This (nonfiction) book about books, by a literary fiction author, puts forward the following dilemma:
Climate change is a part of reality, literary fiction is about the real world (unlike its genre fiction cousins sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc)—and yet including climate change in the setting of literary fiction almost immediately ejects it into genre fiction.

So, what the heck??

This is “the great derangement”—our inability or unwillingness to fully represent ourselves in the Anthropocene (with all its climate change reality) in our art. At least, in our “serious” art. In fact, he argues that literary fiction authors will be remembered—not for their artistic vision and their daring—but for their collusion in climate change denialism.

I recommend this for fans of Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad; Ghosh is to climate change what Hammad is to Palestine.