Her family devastated by an accident that has left her brilliant brother in a vegetative state, biracial college student Emma Boudreaux struggles with a chronic nervous rash and sleepwalking tendencies while undergoing a journey of self-discovery.

Documents the author's decade-long search for identity and a place of belonging as inspired by African-American and Jewish history as well as the exoduses of black communities that left ancestral homes in search of "promised lands."

Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.