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Jan 13, 2018tjdickey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A very interesting concept by an excellent writer. The cast of characters in a flooded New York City 125 years into the future includes street urchins (or better, canal urchins) to big-time financial giants, politicos and police, and plenty of the everyday mix that Manhattan has always attracted. As with any good book about the City, New York itself is also in a very real sense a living character as well - from "autumn in New York" (it's still so exciting) to iceboats on the frozen Hudson, from storm surges to continuity and revitalization of destroyed neighborhoods into the twenty-second century. The most distracting character, sadly, is an overly blatant authorial voice which fills in some necessary backstory, but with less-necessary anger and preachy diatribes about twenty-first-century politics.