Birch and Jay

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Pub Date May 24 2025 | Archive Date May 31 2025
Literary Press Group of Canada | Latitude 46 Publishing

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Description

Decades after the world was levelled by the effects of human-made climate change, the scattered remnants of humanity have begun to pull themselves together. Birch and Jay are a young couple living in a small, idyllic community away from the ruins of one of Canada’s great cities.

As a newly graduated Knowledge Seeker, Jay must leave Birch and their community to collect remnants of old wisdom from the dead world. Along the way, he comes across a mysterious elderly woman who offers to travel with him. He will receive more than a travel companion — she offers revelations about their town’s founding as well as knowledge of how to survive in a lawless world.

Birch, seeking adventure, pursues Jay but finds more danger than she ever imagined. Will they find each other in the chaos and brutality of the city and get safely back home to tell the tale? Birch and Jay will reunite in a place where they confront a terrible reminder of humanity’s perennial flaw: repeating the tragic mistakes of the past.

Decades after the world was levelled by the effects of human-made climate change, the scattered remnants of humanity have begun to pull themselves together. Birch and Jay are a young couple living in...


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Advance Praise

"The easy-to-follow narrative switches between Birch’s and Jay’s perspectives in the year 2173 with their storylines half a century earlier. The engaging premise is full of poignant reminders that the greatest challenge humanity faces is itself; the climate change warnings are unsubtle but don’t detract from the steady pacing. Race in this world is an “antiquated” concept; Birch is racially ambiguous, and Jay has Nordic and Asian Indian ancestry. An exciting adventure with important messages about caring for our world."—Kirkus


"Thompson’s novel offers a compelling salutary tale of a future which we would all be much better avoiding. In this future Ontario, a fraught landscape sets the scene for an entertaining tale where teenage angst, wanderlust, and desire play out in a plausibly violent dystopic future. The kind of future that is coming if we, the current inhabitants of Ontario, and much of the rest of the modern world, don’t change our hyper-consumptive ways and start taking the future seriously." —Simon Dalby, Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University

"The easy-to-follow narrative switches between Birch’s and Jay’s perspectives in the year 2173 with their storylines half a century earlier. The engaging premise is full of poignant reminders that...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781988989921
PRICE CA$22.95 (CAD)
PAGES 230

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