From a master storyteller and the creator of the bestselling "Weetzie Bat" comes this stunning reimagining of Homer's "Odyssey" set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, featuring a strong heroine who holds hope and love in her hands and refuses to be defeated.
From the bestselling author of Weetzie Bat comes a stunning reimagining of Homer's Odyssey, exploring love, queerness, and the devastation of the environment, set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Block's trademark magical realism works. . . . There's something encouraging about seeing four queer kids on an epic journey across the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. --Kirkus Reviews After the Earth Shaker, which all but destroyed Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) sets out into the wasteland in search of her family, her journey guided by a tattered copy of Homer's Odyssey. Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on humans, and a madman who wishes her dead. On her voyage, Pen learns to tell stories that reflect her strange visions, while she and her fellow surivors navigate the dangers that lie in wait. In her signature lyrical style, Francesca Lia Block has created a world that is beautiful in its destruction and as frightening as it is lovely. Love in the Time of Global Warming has shades of science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, and dystopic disaster.

Praise for Love in the Time of Global Warming: A Top Ten ALA Rainbow Project Book [A] compelling apocalyptic survival story with four LGBTQ teens. --Common Sense Media Francesca Lia Block is the imaginative bestselling author of Weetzie Bat; she brings a radiant, illuminating world of death, destruction and adventure in her novel Love in the Time of Global Warming. . . . Block will make you see, smell, hear, taste and feel Pen's story, and she will surely wisk you away into an inspiring, fantastical, Dali-esque dream world that you will never forget. --Teenreads Francesca Lia Block has made a trademark of twining myth and reality so snugly it's difficult to figure out where one ends and the other begins. . . . This is a fine adventure story. . . . You'll be thinking about it for days afterward. --Bookpage Told in Block's distinctive whimsical style, Love in the Time of Global Warming stands out as a uniqu