The story is set in Oakland, California, which is now at sea level and most of the time Oaklanders are walking through water and most people had left for higher ground or moved onto a boat. The story concerns the impact of stories of a New Jesus is not the Second Coming but “lives in each of us and in our action. . . . New Jesus is our cooperation with each other and with the earth” (69). The protagonist rejects and makes fun of his niece, who is telling him and his wife about the New Jesus.
BT - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. C2 -Illus. Wesley Allsbrook
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C6 -The Native American (Cheyenne and Arapaho) author (b. 1982) was born and raised in Oakland.
C7 - 2019 CY - San Francisco, CA DA - 01/2019 LA - eng N2 -The story is set in Oakland, California, which is now at sea level and most of the time Oaklanders are walking through water and most people had left for higher ground or moved onto a boat. The story concerns the impact of stories of a New Jesus is not the Second Coming but “lives in each of us and in our action. . . . New Jesus is our cooperation with each other and with the earth” (69). The protagonist rejects and makes fun of his niece, who is telling him and his wife about the New Jesus.
PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern PP - San Francisco, CA PY - 2019 RN -The authors of the stories were each “assigned a specific climate event mentioned” in the 2018 UN climate report collaborating with experts recommended by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who “provide a scientific backbone” for the stories while giving the writers free rein to determine how closely they adhered to that science” (6-7). The Introduction to the volume (7-12) is by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NDRC.
SP - 66 EP - 75 T2 - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. TI - "New Jesus" VL - 58 ER -