{"product_id":"rail-a-high-speed-adventure-9798986185439","title":"Rail: A High Speed Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRail: A High Speed Adventure \u003c\/em\u003eis #3 of an ecofiction trilogy with love, mystery and adventure, exploring the intersections of design, ethics and the forces that shape our lives. Read standalone or in a series. Books #1 and #2, \u003cem\u003eThe Erenwine Agenda: A Hydraulic Fracturing Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOtter Coast: A Medical Marijuana Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e, were shortlisted in Visionary Fiction for the International Book Award, and the American Legacy Book Award, respectively. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003cem\u003eWild Dark Shore\u003c\/em\u003e (Charlotte McConaghy), \u003cem\u003eThe Last Beekeeper\u003c\/em\u003e (Julie Carrick Dalton), and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue, Beautiful World\u003c\/em\u003e (Karen Lord), this novel offers a propulsive, systems-aware adventure with global stakes. With echoes of \u003cem\u003eMoon of the Crusted Snow\u003c\/em\u003e (Waubgeshig Rice), \u003cem\u003eFlight Behavior\u003c\/em\u003e (Barbara Kingsolver), and \u003cem\u003eCan You Hear the Nightbird Call?\u003c\/em\u003e (Anita Rau Badami), it blends literary suspense with climate-aware storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmalia Sengupta Erenwine is swept into an ambitious high-speed infrastructure proposal promising sustainability, innovation and global transformation. Working alongside her longtime collaborator Betsy Polson-an architect whose passions both support and complicate her own-she researches China's Silk Road corridors, moving onto the permafrost systems of Hokkaido and the stark frontier of Svalbard. As the world moves through a cataclysmic change, Amalia must confront the tension between visionary design and the communities asked to bear its consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetsy approaches the work with a steadiness that comes from long experience. She notices what others overlook and keeps the project anchored in the realities of people, materials and consequences. Her practical sense and her instinct to look out for those around her shape the partnership in ways Amalia depends on, even when they disagree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the project accelerates, Amalia finds herself moving through landscapes that feel both vast and intimate-permafrost, coastlines, Arctic light-each revealing the fragile seams of a world under strain. Visionary guidance arrives in unexpected forms, blurring the boundary between intuition and design as she confronts the weight of memory and responsibility. With every new country and crisis, the question grows sharper: how do you build for a future that is shifting beneath your feet, and what must be risked-or released-to do it with integrity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cinematic, continent-spanning ecofiction novel about ethics, movement and the evolving meaning of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Asei Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798986185439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53241212141749,"sku":"9798986185439","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_841d705a-8d80-4e8f-af4e-3e9e501bfdf6.jpg?v=1788998785","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rail-a-high-speed-adventure-9798986185439","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}