The Garden

"I normally edge away from post-apocalyptic stories, but this one drew me in with its intimate, slow-burn focus on two elderly sisters. Evelyn tends their garden sanctuary, collecting the eggs and picking slugs off the spinach. Lily … dances. When the life they have built is threatened, they approach this new test in very different ways. What haunted me afterward was the implicit question this climate fiction fable asks: Is it better to focus on the daily duties of life or on its beauties? On survival or on meaning? And can you have one without the other?"