Nothing I say about this book will do it justice is absolute perfection on every page, just stunningly written with some of the best Essays I have ever read on topics that have really made me think. This book will stay with me for a long time

How to describe this book? How to provide a short summary?
Rivera’s writing is like her surname, a riverbank, with water always in sight, always at hand, the fauna and the flora, the ecosystems living in harmony, the sounds echoing in their natural rhythm.
This is one of the best essay books and one of the few on the junction of climate science and motherhood that I have ever read.
Rivera’s writing style and how she shapes her essays into stories that connect and inform each other are impressive.
She masterfully blends topics involving the ecosystems, the climate crisis, the collective errrs when we see someone subject to violence and injustice, grief, her anecdotes, important facts about whales and oceans and gives us this relevant. engaging and important book.
Any minor and brief disengagement for a smaller part of a much larger topic, maybe a couple of paragraphs or so were due to my own disinterest. Even in those moments, I kept reading, and had a reflective, informing, illuminating experience.
Rivera’s wonderful at her craft and she is able to evoke emotion, and invite the reader to critical and analytical thinking without the tediousness of fact heavy writing.