Praise for Melted Away
“An extraordinary memoir … Exceptional and highly recommended.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Fascinating…moving…a compelling account of caring for family and the environment.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“An exquisite blend of memoir and environmental reporting from the precipice of the climate crisis. … Her writing luminesces like that blue glacier through to the last, perfect words.”
—Cynthia Barnett, National Book Award finalist for The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
“A brave story of grief, both for what we’re losing to the climate crisis and for what we stand to lose – each other.”
—Brianna Craft, author of Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir
“With her adept storytelling and brutally honest introspective, Drake-Vera humanizes the pain of the unfolding climate crisis.”
—Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Author of Our Fragile Moment and The New Climate War
“This wonderful memoir scales both the Andes and the towering mystery of how to care for an unlovable father. Melted Away is about compassion, for both a declining father and a failing environment.”
—Jill Ciment, author, Consent: A Memoir
“Beautifully combines the story of the author’s complicated relationship with her father, her commitment to combatting climate change, and her deep love for Peruvian culture.”
—Cindy Weinstein, coauthor of Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain
“Gorgeously written and intensely personal … a fascinating memoir that I enthusiastically recommend.”
—Carol Bradley Bursack, CDSGF, founder of Minding Our Elders
” A stunning, one-of-a-kind memoir, a close look at two kinds of loss.”
—Arthur McMaster, poet, novelist, author of In the Orchards of Our Mothers and The Spy Who Came Down with a Cold
“An extraordinary memoir … Exceptional and highly recommended.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Fascinating…moving…a compelling account of caring for family and the environment.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“An exquisite blend of memoir and environmental reporting from the precipice of the climate crisis. … Her writing luminesces like that blue glacier through to the last, perfect words.”
—Cynthia Barnett, National Book Award finalist for The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
“A brave story of grief, both for what we’re losing to the climate crisis and for what we stand to lose – each other.”
—Brianna Craft, author of Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir
“With her adept storytelling and brutally honest introspective, Drake-Vera humanizes the pain of the unfolding climate crisis.”
—Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Author of Our Fragile Moment and The New Climate War
“This wonderful memoir scales both the Andes and the towering mystery of how to care for an unlovable father. Melted Away is about compassion, for both a declining father and a failing environment.”
—Jill Ciment, author, Consent: A Memoir
“Beautifully combines the story of the author’s complicated relationship with her father, her commitment to combatting climate change, and her deep love for Peruvian culture.”
—Cindy Weinstein, coauthor of Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain
“Gorgeously written and intensely personal … a fascinating memoir that I enthusiastically recommend.”
—Carol Bradley Bursack, CDSGF, founder of Minding Our Elders
” A stunning, one-of-a-kind memoir, a close look at two kinds of loss.”
—Arthur McMaster, poet, novelist, author of In the Orchards of Our Mothers and The Spy Who Came Down with a Cold
