Little Apocalypses Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World

"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

"Clear-eyed, deeply engaged with the abundant literature on climate grief, but written from the compelling position of raising the stewards of the future....A perfect accompaniment to complex feelings about parenting in 'ecodistress'-and frustration with 'Green Motherhood.'" -Anne Helen Petersen, author, and creator of Culture Study

"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

"A must read for climate-conscious parents." -Publishers Weekly

"Teer's contemplative essays, set in her Washington home, reach for answers to help her with the hard work ahead as she guides her children into our shared, precarious, yet hopeful future." -Booklist

"With evocative and tender prose, Kaitlyn Teer gives voice to the hearts and minds of so many parents, joining the pantheon of necessary books that reimagine raising children in the face of a rapidly changing climate. Part confession, part call to action, these urgent essays turn over personal, cultural, and scientific stones, ultimately inviting readers to move beyond paralysis and approach our uncertain future with curiosity and imagination." -Orion

"Sweet, wise and precisely crafted." -Anya Kamenetz, journalist and author of The Stolen Year