The Annual Migration of Clouds is less about the destruction or aftermath of disaster and more focused on how communities, families, and people learn to live together and apart. Sometimes the leaving was in death, and other times it was like Reid’s-a leaving toward a, hopefully, better place. Throughout the book, the theme came up in a myriad of ways. Out of all of the things that Mohamed did well in the book, the one that stabbed me deepest was the depiction of someone leaving home. But Mohamed set up the book in the first few pages in a way that instantly sucked me into the story, had me concerned for the characters, and mournful of my own past-due to how closely related Reid’s story of leaving home is to my own-while also keeping me in a state of WTF about the state of the world. I went into The Annual Migration of Clouds with little idea of what the story was about. It was handled with delicate care and in such a tender way that my eyes stung several times while reading their scenes. Such fullness created character bonds strong enough to make me wonder, like Reid, is it right to leave these relationships? I particularly latched onto the relationship between Reid and her mother. That style made the world clear, distinct and all the moments in the book feel full, heavy. The tension and relationships rise in her work in a way that demands to be engaged with. She has a way of constructing sentences that create this rush and flow of words, all-powerful and impactful without losing the story or its emotion. If you’ve read Mohamed before, you know that her work is evocative, scary, and beautiful, often all at the same time. She’s a young woman infected by a mind-controlling fungus who gets accepted into a prestigious school far away from her home as she makes the decision and preparation to leave, quite possibly for good, Mohamed weaves together Reid’s final weeks. Set in a post-climate disaster Alberta, Mohamed’s book follows Reid. Released at the end of September from ECW Press, Premee Mohamed’s novella, The Annual Migration of Clouds, was a perfect storm and excellent-but emotional-read. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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