Migrations

using only the smallest of strokes... Migrations, rather than struggle to convince readers of some plan of environmental action, instead puts humans in their place."
-Los Angeles Times

"Thrilling...In piecing together who this mysterious protagonist really is, McConaghy creates a detailed portrait of a woman on the cusp of collapse, consumed with a world that is every bit as broken as she is. Migrations offers a grim window into a future that doesn't feel very removed from our own, which makes Franny's voice all the more powerful. In understanding how nature can heal us, McConaghy underlines why it urgently needs to be protected."
-TIME

"Gripping...By merging cli-fi and nature writing, the novel powerfully demonstrates the spiritual and emotional costs of environmental destruction."
-The Economist

"A good nautical adventure...Migrations moves at a fast, exciting clip, motored as much by love for 'creatures that aren't human' as by outrage at their destruction."
-The Wall Street Journal

"[A] tantalizingly beautiful epic."
-Elle

"You can practically hear the glaciers cracking to pieces and the shrill yelps of the circling terns."
-Vulture

"Suspenseful, atmospheric...As much a mystery as an odyssey."
-Vogue

"Gorgeous...A personal reckoning that cuts right to theheart. This beautiful novel is an ode-if not an elegy-to an endangered planetand the people and places we love."
-Literary Hub

"At a time when it feels like we're at the end of the world, this novel about a different kind of end of the world serves as both catharsis and escape."
-Harper's Bazaar

"An ode to our disappearing natural world."
-Newsweek

"Migrations is a gripping tale that ultimately celebrates the beauty and resilience of the creatures-human and animal-that endure."
-Sierra Magazine

"An exceptional novel that is both elegy and page-turning thriller."
-Maclean's Magazine

"[Migrations] could be taking place in two years or 20 years, but it could just as well be happening today...A consummate blend of issue and portrait, warning and affirmation, this heartbreaking, lushly written work is highly recommended."
-Library Journal (starred review)

"Transfixing, gorgeously precise...[The] evocation of a world bereft of wildlife is piercing; Franny's otherworldliness is captivating, and her extreme misadventures and anguished secrets are gripping."
-Booklist (starred review)

"Migrations is as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read. This is an extraordinary novel by a wildly talented writer."
-Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven

"This novel is enchanting, but not in some safe, fairy-tale sense. Charlotte McConaghy has harnessed the rough magic that sears our souls. I recommend Migrations with my whole heart."
-Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord and March

"Migrations is a wonder. I read it in a gasp. There is hope in these pages; a balm for these troubled times. Charlotte McConaghy's words cut through to the bone."
-Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept

"An elegiac meditation on human and nonhuman loss...Immersive and haunting and quietly arresting."
-Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

"An astounding meditation on love, trauma, and the cost of survival. A true force of a book that I read holding my breath from its start to its symphonic finish."
-Julia Fine, author of What Should Be Wild

"Migrations is indeed about loss-but what makes it miraculous is that it is also about hope. Written in prose as gorgeous as the crystalline beauty of the Arctic, Migrations is deeply moving, haunting, and, yes, important."
-Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You and Cruel Beautiful World

"At times devastating and, at others, surprisingly, undeniably hopeful...Brimming with stunning imagery and raw emotion, Migrations is the incredible story of personal redemption, self-forgiveness and hope for the future in the face of a world on the brink of collapse."
-Shelf Awareness