I feel like i practiacally inhaled this book and its gonna be sitting buried somewhere in my gray matter for a while.

Tetley (yes named after the tea) is a girl who lives in Garbagetown, an accumulation of trash and detritus clumped together to make human settlements that float on the now ocean-covered earth. She is a pariah in her post-global warming apocalyptic community and faces abuse on the daily for her past actions but maintains her positive stance on her and her people's situation as she thinks this is what's best even if they don't realise it. Despite the stream-of-consciousness style of writing, the very unreliable narrator, as well as the time, jumps you get a sense of what occurred in Tetley's past as well as what's going on quite clearly if you pay attention but also make the whole narrative really interesting and mysterious.

It's heartbreaking and I have no words to describe how accurately it portrays humankind and our flaws and especially the flaws of the selfish and the doomed hopeful and the cowards. The writing as usual is beautiful and sharp. The world is so imaginative and a harsh possible reality.
p.s. Imagine my shock when I found the garbage floating in the Pacific is a real thing and is apparently twice the size of Texas and that's what inspired Valente to write this book

“Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens, and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.”