Earth Jumped Back - Softcover

Reari, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1685134483 ISBN 13: 9781685134488

Publisher: Black Rose Writing, 2024

Synopsis

“A wonderfully weird adventure through time, disaster, and youthfulness. Philip Reari weaves an energetic story that, at its core, probes our connection and responsibility to our environment and to each other.” –Irina Zhorov, author of Lost Believers

College junior Ethan Trousock has his own problems: professor Bourman's history exam, parental aging, dating dry spells. The devastating oil spill that blanketed his university's coastline half a century before and led to the birth of the modern environmental movement is ancient history. Until one night when an ocean portal transports him back to 1969.

Denise Pirouet, an overwhelmed student reporter, has a front row seat to the ominous undercurrent unleashed by the inky, oil-laden ocean, including a pernicious bombing at the Faculty Club. Ethan befriends Denise and her boyfriend, whom he suspects he recognizes from the future. As campus unrest mounts, culminating in a bank burning and a violent standoff with the national guard, Ethan and Denise become linked in unexpected ways that will only become clear 50 years later.

Earth Jumped Back is a historical, time-bending novel based on events in Santa Barbara, CA, that occurred during the same period of generational upheaval as the Manson murders. Philip Reari is an environmental reporter and editor whose first novel was shortlisted for the Santa Fe Literary Awards. Read this book for an entertaining, probing peek into the recent past that will make you think differently about today.

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About the Author

Philip Reari is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and editor working to reduce industrial pollution, raise environmental awareness, and write fiction. Previously a climate reporter, his work has been published by Dissent, Grist, Huffington Post, Kyoto Journal, Mother Jones, n+1, Wired, and many others. He grew up in State College, PA, and Santa Fe, NM, and went to school in Santa Barbara, CA, and Austin, TX, before settling in D.C. Along the way he was a fellow at Tara Books in Chennai, India, for nine months and received journalism grants to report in-depth environmental stories in the Western U.S. and Australia and New Zealand. www.philipreari.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Writing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685134483
• ISBN 13: 9781685134488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 281