“Hijinks on the page! What is a useful response to the current crisis we now face on this planet—the mounting evidence of anthropogenic climate change? Nicole Walker and David Carlin have elected to do what thinking people do when faced with paralyzing silence and numbness—to seek company and conversation. These short essays, organized around the certain and established road of the Latin alphabet, observe the anomalies, report the weirdness, and respond to each other. They invent, theorize, rage, and celebrate. Each tiny essay in The After-Normal offers a manageable bit of the world that bursts with flavor like a delicately-constructed amuse bouche. Enter this book and discover engagement, communion, and solace.”  —Debra Marquart, author of The Horizontal World

With meditations on topics ranging from bitumen to plasmodia, elephants to xeric, The After-Normal collects an A to Z of people, places, and phenomena to marvel at, to kick against, to let go, and to fight for. The After-Normal released on June 11: Order your copy now!