Earth 7 : a novel / Deb Olin Unferth.
Well, that's about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows in her latest electrifying novel, life and love persist, even in the most unexpected, inhospitable places. Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love-or any love-seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts-and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may be alive to make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Quixotic? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do? By the end of Unferth's wild, poetic, revelatory, and slyly philosophical novel, the reader has traveled to the very edges of the cosmos as a "soul globule" and between grains of sand as a microscopic tardigrade.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781644453940
- ISBN: 1644453940
- Physical Description: 232 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
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Available copies
- 11 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)
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- 1 current hold with 16 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Madison Main Library | FIC UNF (Text) | 30229101449113 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | CMB2016976 (Text) | CMB2016977 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| East Asheville Library | F UNF (Text) | 0020514179694 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | GOLDAF (Text) | WAYNE24877861490145 | Adult New Fiction | On order | - |
| Haywood County Main Library | F Unferth (Text) | 33115007718578 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/13/2026 |
| Henderson Main Branch | UNF / Science Fiction (Text) | 33258010598552 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Hope Mills Library | CMB2016976 (Text) | CMB2016976 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC UNFERTH (Text) | 36015002732556 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Leicester Library | F UNF (Text) | 0020514179769 | Adult New Fiction | In transit | - |
| Lenoir Library | F UNFERTH Deb Olin (Text) | 50669013476776 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
