My Days of Dark Green Euphoria

Love, lies, and eco-anxiety - an irresistible satire about finding balance in a chaotic world

Thirtysomething Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious-perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters (not because she wants to but because it's the right thing to do), does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating her boyfriend for killing a spider instead of saving a life.

Cara has never met her six (soon to be seven) nephews and nieces because she doesn't fly domestic (unless it's an emergency) or international (ever). She longs for a carbon footprint so light you'd hardly know she exists.

Then, during a mimosa-soaked Sunday brunch, she meets her boyfriend's alluring mother, Millie, and Cara finds herself mesmerized. Millie represents everything Cara's against: She eats meat, has cowhide rugs, drives a car the size of a small yacht, and blithely travels the world by boat, plane, and train-without any guilt whatsoever. In fact, Cara soon admits this may be why she finds herself so drawn to Millie. As they begin spending time together, getting pedicures and drinking sixteen-olive martinis, Cara becomes hooked on Millie and this new freedom from the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century.

Yet before long, Cara risks losing everything to be close to the mundane extravagance of Millie's world-her career, her best friend, and her identity all hang in the balance as she struggles to disentangle from this intoxicating muse.

Irreverent, witty, and provocative, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria-winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature-is a satirical novel of how a life on the edge of eco-anxiety can spiral wildly out of control, as well as how promising and inspiring a commitment to saving our planet can be.

Author: A. E. Copenhaver
Publisher: Ashland Creek Press
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781618220974

About the Author
Copenhaver, A. E.: - A.E. Copenhaver is a writer, editor, science communicator, and climate interpreter who has worked in the environmental and nonprofit sectors for almost a decade. She has ghostwritten book chapters about cities plagued by factory farming, air pollution, and automobile traffic, and she has written about migrating white sharks, threatened sea otters, and depleted Pacific bluefin tuna. In recent years, she's been exploring how best to contribute to the global transition toward compassion and justice for all people, animals, and the living world. She holds degrees in English and environmental studies from Santa Clara University, and in 2009, she earned her master of arts degree in culture and modernity from the University of East Anglia in England. She moves back and forth between Eugene, Oregon, and Carmel, California.

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