Half a Million Minutes

At midnight on New Year’ s Day, 2049, the Exodus Clock begins its final countdown.By the end of the year, rising seas will force the citizens of the Bishop Islands— a tiny Pacific atoll nation— to abandon their homeland forever. Hazelmary Moore, a seventy-four-year-old retired schoolteacher, has spent her life teaching the history of a country now on the brink of extinction. As evacuation plans accelerate and global powers tighten their grip, Hazelmary uncovers a chilling truth: the fate of...