The houses and the lighthouse serve as two points in the triangle of exhibitions called "The Memory of Water".
Mary, curator, eco-fiction.com Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta: The novel takes place in the future after climate change has ravished economies and ecologies, and made fresh water scarce.
Finnish writer Emmi Itäranta makes the cut for her debut, Memory of Water, in which a girl is given the secret of the spring hidden near her village on her 17th birthday.
Tom Millea finds apocalypse hovering over the deep, Hiroshi Sugimoto examines the way that light rearranges an almost primitive memory of water below and sky above, Hiroshi Yamazaki studies the passage of time and light together across the sea.
But the homeopaths themselves can never admit this clear, compelling, evidence-based and parsimonious explanation: they need the memory of water, the power of arcane knowledge and all the rest.
The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey (Orbit) The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Canongate) Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris) Memory Of Water by Emmi Itäranta (HarperVoyager) The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Orbit) Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Picador).
Based on Shelagh Stephenson's stage play The Memory of Water, the film is theatrical in the worst possible way: the actors (all of whom have performed well in other films) speak emphatically, either in long soliloquies or in short, slow sentences they clearly hope will turn out as deadpan humour.
The fiction we've read in the group includes "Birds of a Lesser Paradise," by Megan Mayhew Bergman; "Life of Pi," by Yann Martel; "Ordinary Wolves," by Seth Kantner; "The Year of the Flood," by Margaret Atwood; "The Wilding," by Benjamin Percy; "Ishmael," by Daniel Quinn; and "Memory of Water," by Emmi Itaaranta.
Chambers's novel was shortlisted for the Golden Tentacle award for the year's best debut alongside Monica Byrne's The Girl in the Road, the story of a woman who must flee her home in late 21st-century India (described as "glorious" by Neil Gaiman, Hermione Eyree's historical fantasy Viper Wine and Emmi Itäranta's dystopian, post-climate-change novel Memory of Water.
Mr. Spina directed "The Memory of Water," by Shelagh Stephenson, for What Exit? in 2000, and Ms. Sheehan, who is also an actress, "has been in too many one-acts and stage readings to count" for the Theater Project, Mr. Spina said, as well as some main stage productions.
