Why We Chose It: “Angry Mamas” by Genevieve Guenther

Emily Raboteau is the author of The Professor’s Daughter (Holt, 2005) and Searching for Zion (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013), winner of an American Book Award. She is a contributing editor at Orion, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a professor of creative writing at CUNY. Since the publication of the 2018 IPCC report, she’s been writing about the climate crisis. Her next book, Caution, is forthcoming from Holt.