Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling
Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling
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Camp Zero

Bestseller

Author: Michelle Min Sterling

Narrator: Graham Halstead, Greta Jung, Emily Tremaine

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023


Synopsis

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

Libby Book Award Winner for Best Diverse Author

In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart” (Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author).

In remote northern Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is break­ing ground on a building project called Camp Zero, intended to be the beginning of a new way of life. A clever and determined young woman code-named Rose is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group hired to entertain the men in camp—but her real mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge. In return, she’ll receive a home for her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother and herself.

Rose quickly secures the trust of her target, only to discover that everyone has a hidden agenda, and nothing is as it seems. Through skill­fully braided perspectives, including those of a young professor longing to escape his wealthy family and an all-woman military research unit struggling for survival at a climate station, the fate of Camp Zero’s inhabitants reaches a stunning crescendo.

Atmospheric, fiercely original, and utterly gripping, Camp Zero is an electrifying page-turner and a masterful exploration of who and what will survive in a warming world, and how falling in love and building community can be the most daring acts of all.

About Michelle Min Sterling

Michelle Min Sterling is the New York Times bestselling author of Camp Zero, which was also a Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick. Michelle was born in British Columbia, Canada, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She teaches literature and writing at Berklee College of Music, and has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler and Joyland. Find out more at MichelleMinSterling.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by BJ on January 13, 2025

I won a print copy of Camp Zero in a giveaway. I didn’t really think of print giveaways as something one won—more something one entered, periodically, on a whim, then forgot about—so receiving a free book in the mail was lovely. And though I had mixed feelings in the end, I anticipate that Sterling'......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on April 14, 2023

**Many thanks to Edelweiss, Maudee Genao at Atria, and Michelle Min Sterling for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! Now available as of 4.4!!** “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” – Carl Sagan In this sci-fi dystopian novel, our world is rapidly running out of reso......more

Goodreads review by Danika at The Lesbrary on March 29, 2023

I loved the first half of this and was really excited about it, especially the White Alice chapters, but then the last half didn't nail the landing for me. Far be it from me to complain about men being portrayed badly, but it really started to feel like it was showing that men ruined everything sing......more

2.5 stars rounded up A dystopian thriller(sort of?) set in a time where climate change is apocalyptic and people want to move to Canada to escape. I liked this, but it kind of lost me toward the end. Thematically it's tackling a lot of big and important topics like climate change, gender, immigration......more

Goodreads review by The Speculative Shelf on January 21, 2023

This was a pleasant surprise. Camp Zero is swiftly paced, has solid twists, and features multiple compelling interwoven storylines. Michelle Min Sterling’s vision of the future is intriguing, alarming, yet totally plausible. The separate POVs are well-differentiated, as each character brings a unique......more


Quotes

"Graham Halstead, Greta Jung, and Emily Tremaine narrate this dystopian sci-fi novel. In the near future, survivors converge on a remote camp in northern Canada. Rose is a Bloom, a sex worker assigned to Camp Zero. Rather than making Rose a figure of pity, Jung portrays her quiet strength of character and will to survive. Grant Grimley is a young academic who is desperate to escape his family and his past. Halstead slowly reveals the depth of Grant’s trauma while also stressing how he learns to endure. White Alice is a top-secret U.S. military operation in Canada staffed by an all-female squad. Tremaine’s stylized delivery of the Greek-chorus-style narratives of the soldiers is particularly effective at illuminating their forced proximity and obligation to work together."