Hummingbird Salamander
A security consultant is drawn into a mystery by a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species.
Jeff VanderMeer’s 2021 novel is set in a near-future dystopia shaped by climate change. Its narrator is a corporate security consultant who goes by Jane Smith. She receives a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species, and it pulls her into a mystery. In the New York Times, Helen Phillips called the book climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping.
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