Harrow by Joy Williams

Oh, what a strange trip I'm on. Harrow's mom feels that Harrow has been marked for greatness because she died as an infant and was brought back. Harrow of course doesn't remember any of this nor can she share any prophetic wisdom from the other side. Sent to a strange philosophical boarding school before her mother abandons her she then finds herself at a dilapidated resort on a death spiral from an apocalyptic environmental event. The lake resort is filled mainly with elderly people on death's door but Harrow does make friends with a young boy there with his mother. This is one of those books that makes me feel like much of the hidden meaning is going over my head. It is a sad depiction of what may happen because of putting our heads in the sand over climate change. There is no easy genre to put this one in nor should it be dismissed as just apocalyptic/horror - it is simply like nothing I have read before. 4 stars