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Future: A future San Francisco, transformed by years of rain……
Awake in the Floating City
What you need to know before your trail
In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed artist, is grieving the community she’s lost to catastrophic flooding. Her friends and family have disappeared or fled, the streets are rivers, and the buildings are falling apart.
Yet on the day of her planned departure, Bo finds a note slipped under her door: I need help, it reads. Three days a week, afternoons. Can pay in cash.
Unable to bring herself to board the ship that could save her life, Bo instead chooses to answer the note, which turns out to have been written by her neighbour Mia, a 130-year-old “supercentenarian” long abandoned by her own family.
Locations
Reset- America. USA - CA - San Francisco
- A: San Francisco Bay
- B: Golden Gate bridge
- C: Sansome St
- D: Sand Dunes
Travel Guide
San Francisco
For a city practically surrounded by water naturally, you can imagine the city at the mercy of the elements and flooding like in this novel. The city has some very unique water conditions in and around Alcatraz island as even though the water often looks calm, there are considerable currents underneath. That was the mystery behind how the escaped prisoners apparently could not have been able to escape the prison and the island back in 1962.
The book concentrates more on the characters than the water/flooding but it still is an interesting backdrop!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Awake in the Floating City
Destination/Location: San Francisco Author: Susanna Kwan Departure: future
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