Many of the fiction about nature/human relationships with nature that I have consumed is through audio and visual media. The fiction that I think of most is “The Other Side of the Island” by Allegra Goodman. A lot of the politics discussed in the work is something that I never caught onto as a kid in my initial first readings of it. As such, reading it again allows me to confront topics such as bioterrorism and ecofascism. The challenge of this form of writing is to prevent the metaphors being used in it to not feel too heavy-handed, which has become a common criticism of environmental fiction in the past.
