The Things We Leave Running: A City Waiting. A World Moving On. - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

For eighty-three years, Bellwether has kept the lights on for people who never came home.

Then forty-four flood survivors arrive, and the city’s first response is a parking complaint.

Nell Saye has little patience for that. Her neighbours need dry rooms, working toilets, and somewhere to put the children. Bellwether has empty apartments, stocked cupboards, and an artificial caretaker called Bell whose instructions were written for an entirely different population.

Finding shelter is the easy part. Deciding who gets to call it home takes longer.

As the newcomers settle in, they begin changing things. A man who cannot cook opens a restaurant. A woman returns to a childhood home she can barely bring herself to enter. Children ask questions Bell has spent decades without needing to answer. Nell makes herself indispensable, then discovers how difficult it is to stop.

Beyond the city, other communities need the machinery keeping Bellwether alive. And upstream, the water is rising.

With a new storm approaching, the residents must decide what they can afford to preserve—and Bell must confront what its duty to the past is costing the people at its doors.

The Things We Leave Running is a quietly funny, humane science-fiction novel about an ageing city, an unexpected community, and the difficult work of caring for a place—and one another—when there is never enough to save everything.

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