{"product_id":"9781961714014","title":"Mother Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMother Nature wants to kill us all. Her sister thinks she just needs to get out more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMona has a problem and their name is, Humans. She spent ages creating Earth, carefully balancing oceans, forests, wildlife, weather, and ecosystems into the perfect entrance project for university.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen her twin sister, Penny, helped add humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMona has regretted it ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey pollute her oceans. Destroy her forests. Wipe out entire species. Fill the planet with plastic. And somehow they still have the audacity to call \u003cem\u003eher\u003c\/em\u003e natural disasters. As far as Mona is concerned, humanity has failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is ready to press delete but when Penny disagrees, the sisters make a bet. Before Mona can decide the fate of the human race, she has to live as one of them and experience eight basic human emotions for herself. No hiding behind technology. No pausing when things get uncomfortable. No destroying anyone simply because they annoy her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow difficult could it possibly be?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Mona wakes up in the Pacific Northwest, in a seventeen-year-old human body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost immediately, she discovers that humans are even stranger up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIce cream is incredible. Cars are terrifying. Libraries appear to be mass graves for trees. Alcohol is a terrible invention. Friendship is confusing. An eight-year-old named Oliver somehow becomes important to her before she realizes it's happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then she meets his older brother, Noah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoah is kind, infuriatingly attractive, and capable of producing physical reactions Mona's advanced technology never prepared her for. The more time she spends with him, Oliver, and the people slowly becoming her friends, the harder it becomes to dismiss humanity as one destructive species deserving extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, spending time with humans also shows Mona exactly how cruel, wasteful, painful, and complicated they can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenny wanted her sister to understand humanity. But she may have succeeded a little too well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Mona still gets the final vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEight emotions. One human lifetime. One decision.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when Mother Nature finally understands what it means to be human, she'll have to decide whether we're worth saving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr whether extinction was the right answer all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMother Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is a funny, heartfelt speculative fantasy about sisters, first love, friendship, environmental responsibility, grief, belonging, and an all-powerful creator discovering that humanity's greatest flaw may also be the thing that makes us worth keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaving the world is easy when you created it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiving in it is considerably harder.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainbow Quartz Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46323377635569,"sku":"9781961714014","price":22.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781961714014_p0.jpg?v=1771558388","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781961714014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}