Week 20 - LGBTQ+ Women's Fiction

Well, I'm still tired from all the writing I did last week, but I'm going to push on and continue this week with my next book. It's called The Greenhouse Binary, and here's what it's all about:

An intergenerational story focused around women and climate change.
 
Jada is eight when the alarm is sounded about climate change becoming irreversible. While her parents are deniers, she sees what’s happening with the catastrophic weather destroying cities and towns all over the world, including in her hometown of Los Angeles. When her family is killed in a flood and she’s taken in by an aunt, she makes it her mission to help save the planet.
 
After she becomes an adult, Jada falls in love with someone who respects her mission but doesn’t follow it—a woman by the name of Kehlani, who’s a lawyer. They adopt a daughter Haley, who follows in Jada’s footsteps in wanting to battle climate change. Meanwhile, certain cities have either been abandoned or become hotspots for crime because so much of them is being destroyed with each new weather disaster. Their family moves to northern California to try to escape the coastal regions in the southern part of the state.
 
From a young age, their daughter Haley sees that the way to effect meaningful change is by jumping in with both feet. After growing up and seeing the constant struggle in the political arena to find workable solutions, Haley decides to run for governor of California. A storm destroys half of San Francisco with a tsunami while Haley is visiting and trying to persuade the mayor to take action. She has a harrowing escape back home to her daughter and husband in Sacramento. They vow to keep fighting, and her young daughter says she will also take up the mantle and continue the fight in her mother’s footsteps.

It's going to be a fun challenge to write such an interweaving of genres and characters over generations, but one I'm happy to take on. See you at the end of the week when I read an excerpt from this book. Until then, have a great week!