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""Raw, undeniable, and tender."" --Kate Baer, New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman ""As quietly earth-shattering as it is tenderly hopeful."" --Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck A thoughtful, evocative, and urgently needed collection that reimagines the stories we tell about motherhood, climate change, and the end of the world as we know it. How do you raise children in a world rapidly being reshaped by climate change? Do our narratives about climate change and care help us or hinder us in our efforts to get it right? Little Apocalypses seeks to explore these urgent questions as we navigate the existential predicament of parenting on a planet in crisis. In this collection of beautifully crafted essays, Kaitlyn Teer--herself the mother of two young children--blends personal narrative, cultural analysis, and wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary research to offer new ways for readers to think more deeply and more hopefully about the radical possibilities of caregiving to bring a more just and sustainable future into being. In ""World Without End"" Teer examines the apocalyptic rhetoric that shapes our understanding of the climate crisis and shows us where to find new stories that can shape our imaginations of what's still possible. In ""Mother of All Messes"" Teer considers the pressures to perform green motherhood and calls for refocusing efforts to collective action on for mutual flourishing. Teer's writing overflows with love for her children, her community, and the natural world, and offers an invitation to face the uncertain future with curiosity and imagination. A thoughtful and eye-opening look at the power of caregiving in crisis, Little Apocalypses is a call to action--an invitation to parents to become active participants in carving a different path forward for all of us, our children, and our planet. ""A tender and trenchant essay collection about motherhood and fears of the future."" --Kirkus

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""Kaitlyn's writing on motherhood and caregiving is consistently thoughtful, empathetic, and beautiful. I rigidly compartmentalize my climate change anxiety because if I give it too much room in my brain, I tend to panic, but Kaitlyn approaches the topic with such grace; reading her column validates my anxiety while also offering me hope. Her writing makes me feel held."" - Sara Petersen, author of Momfluenced

""Raw, undeniable, and tender--Little Apocalypses digs deep into what it means to parent in a heated world. Teer's voice holds both the ache of looming climate chaos and the unshakable hope that caring can change everything."" --Kate Baer, New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman ""These radiant essays glow like embers cupped in two hands--tender, crackling with wonder, full of the small astonishments and seeds that flare even in our hardest seasons. Little Apocalypses reminds us that even as the world tilts and trembles, there is still sweetness, still a wild and holy glitter of joy to gather and keep."" --Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders ""How do we find the courage to love what we might lose? How do we gently but effectively face our greatest fears? Little Apocalypses is Kaitlyn Teer's graceful, incisive exploration of the intertwined experiences of motherhood and living on this planet. It's as quietly earth-shattering as it is tenderly hopeful."" --Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck ""Little Apocalypses is a beautifully wrought excavation of the love and fear that define a parents' relationship to their children and how that love and fear inform the particularity of a parent's grief and terror concerning the future of the planet. This is not a book about wistful hope, so much as it is an urgent call to be courageous enough to hope, and then steadfast enough to turn that hope into collective movement forward."" --Sara Petersen, author of Momfluence ""Reading Little Apocalypses feels like taking a nourishing walk with a brilliant, compassionate, relentlessly curious friend. Kaitlyn Teer is a graceful guide through questions of care work and the climate crisis; subjects that, in her hands, transform into sites of hope for our collective future. Brimming with clear-eyed optimism and a palpable love of the land, Little Apocalypses refreshed my sense of wonder."" --Tajja Isen, author of Some of My Best Friends ""Kaitlyn Teer writes with the rare ability to hold contradiction without flinching. Little Apocalypses is at once a tender reckoning with early motherhood and a sharp interrogation of the doomsday rhetoric that shapes how we think about our warming world, offering not answers but something better: new questions and the courage to sit with them. A beautiful balm for the soul. A must-read."" --Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman and Godshot ""Whether you have a racing heart, a muddled mind, or firmly covered ears when it comes to climate change, Kaitlyn Teer's beautiful, lyrical, exquisitely researched book is a balm. She tackles what's actually happening with muscular hope and so much love for her family and the natural world. Just as daily life and existential threats are woven together, the essays move from her sudsy kitchen sink and family bicycle, to wildfires and hurricanes, then back for bean soup and bedtime stories. Powerful insights from philosophers, scientists, activists, and her own small children make this book feel as layered and rich as oceans and forests themselves; yet somehow her guidance feels collective and energizing, never overwhelming. Little Apocalypses feels like a hand slipping into yours as we look together toward the future."" --Joanna Goddard, founder of Cup of Jo ""A tender and trenchant essay collection about motherhood and fears of the future."" --Kirkus

Author Information

Kaitlyn Teer is a senior editor at Cup of Jo. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult, Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and she has taught writing at Western Washington University. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and two children.

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