The Light Pirate

 By: The Light Pirate

Location: FIC PIR

Genre:  Fantasy- ClimFic

Oh no, you didn’t. Oh yes, you did!!! You took me on a dystopian tour. Me, who isn’t a fan of the genre. But that’s what I said and you had me in Good Morning, Midnight. Now you’ve spun your talent again and sucked me right into the vortex.

Wanda is a 9 year old child born during the largest hurricane ever in Florida. Named after the storm even. There is power in that name.
Florida continues to disappear as hurricanes pummel the state. I lived through this one. It was a powerfully frightening one.
The themes of climate change, politics, loss, survival at the centre of this action packed story.
Well played!  Canada Jen

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world.

Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before.

As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature.

Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.