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Washington Square Press, 2026
This book was born from a searing memory in Antarctica: I was watching a penguin walk south in the snow, possibly toward its death, and as I stood there, feeling powerless to help it, painful memories of my failure to save someone I loved flooded me.
In the autumn of 2020, as I sat down at a kitchen table I’d moved into a closet so I could write, I knew I couldn’t explain that moment, or how precious and astounding Antarctica had become to me, without sharing what went on inside of me while I was there.
After over six years of writing and research, I’m excited to share The Blue Hours with you, the kind of book that I wanted to read about Antarctica but didn’t exist yet, one that depicted Antarctica as alive instead of “barren,” and one that held a chorus of voices from the margins of Antarctic histories, human and nonhuman, in its pages.