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Frank Vanderwal has been subletting an apartment in Washington DC during his secondment to the National Science Foundation. He has agreed to a year long extension of his duties, but he must find another place to live. DC is cleaning up after massive flooding. The public buildings and monuments have been reclaimed but there are even fewer places to live than before. Worldwide floods have been caused by a change in the attitude of the Gulf Stream and the weather is changing all over the world. The salinity of the oceans has dropped because the ice caps are melting caused by an increase in temperature. Now that has caused too much fresh water to enter the system which will lead to another ice age within the next three years. Vanderwal decides not to rent another place to live. He figures he can live in a van. He can join a heath club for showers and keep extra clean clothes in his locker, and not bother with finding a flat. Rock Creek Park has been declared off-limits. There are still escaped zoo animals out there and the roads and bridges are not safe after the flood. But there are people living in the park. Frank builds himself a tree house and hangs out with a couple of different groups of street people who also inhabit the park. With the difference being that he goes to work days and has money to buy food, which he shares with his friends. This is a strange book. It is all told from Frank's point of view. And although the science behind the scenario is explained, it is not the focus of the story. The science is secondary to its effect on people. I can see it as one of those four-hour TV disaster movies. It might make a good one
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2005
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