Beat the summer heat by staying indoors with a book from the WBUR Read-In ☀️📚
, a city known as an urban heat island. “The Cool Block project is loading the area with pretty much every heat fighting tool in use around the country. There are 47 new elm, crabapple, cherry and hawthorn trees. Sidewalks are being ripped up to add planters, porous pavers or white concrete,” says Bebinger. These solutions are thoughtful and innovative but may be hard to scale. For most of us, the summers will remain hot.
Putting the real-life repercussions aside for the moment, a long, hot summer makes for an incredible literary device. Heatwave scenes have a way of snatching you out of your world and into another, I think, because the sensation of the blazing sun is so visceral. It can make you feel on edge, claustrophobic, sometimes freer, and, dare I say, sensual. Below are a few reads to keep you company during the next heatwave.Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel may be my favorite book I’ve read this year.
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