![]() ![]() ![]() There are occasional moments of humor, but most of Bacigalupi’s writing is almost unremittingly dark. As the hunter scrapes and wheedles his living from the river, California, unbeknownst to him, has legislated him out of home and business. As with many pieces in this collection, Bacigalupi tells a bleak larger story through an episode in the life of one character: in this case, an eponymous tamarisk hunter who removes this invasive species from the Colorado River’s banks. ![]() One of these, “The Tamarisk Hunter,” is deeply informed by the author’s knowledge of water rights battles in the western states. Bacigalupi is a former editor at High Country News, and his profound sense of the connection between humanity and the consequences of our actions on the landscape permeates his stories. Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut collection of stories, Pump Six, is a call to get the world off the disastrous path the author fears we are on. ![]()
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