Legna Rodriguez Iglesias Knihy

My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which mortality, corporeality, bureaucracy, emotional and physical violence, and the American Dream define the long journey of our narrator and her beloved pet dog, who gives the book both its title and its unforgettable ending. In its daring style and structure--both playful and profound, youthful and mature - and its frank discussion of political and sexual identity, My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog marks the emergence of an original and essential new voice.

This book synthesizes current knowledge on the interactions between climate change and marine life, focusing on environmental stressors during the Anthropocene, a period marked by significant human impact on Earth's ecosystems. It addresses rapid changes such as rising carbon dioxide levels, increasing global temperatures, oxygen depletion in aquatic systems, and pollution from large-scale human activities like overfishing. The text begins with an overview of essential ocean science and climate concepts, followed by a discussion of recent changes in marine chemistry, including ocean acidification, declining oxygen levels, warming oceans, and pollution, highlighting shifts in ecosystem diversity. The chapters explore how these changes affect ecosystem health, the biological carbon pump, and the ocean's ability to sequester carbon dioxide, challenging the notion of its unlimited resilience as a carbon reservoir. Key topics include threats to marine diversity and ecosystem function, shifts in productivity and diversity across latitudes, and alterations in the global cycling of elements like carbon. The book concludes with an examination of the implications of climate change for food security.