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About the Book<\/h4>\n

In a near-future Paris reshaped by climate urgency, environmental engineer Diane Griffith draws on innovations in vertical agriculture to help design an ambitious model of green urban life meant to heal both city and planet. As the project transforms Paris\u2019s historic core, unanswered questions arise \u2014 about care, responsibility, and what sustainable progress truly requires. The search for her missing activist sister forces Diane to engage with those questions. Told alongside the future perspective of her niece Lou, who must live with and fight within Diane\u2019s legacy, The Hunger of Those Who Built It<\/i> asks who gets to inherit tomorrow\u2019s utopia.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/h4>\n

Wendy Waring<\/b> grew up within earshot of the steel mills of Hamilton, Canada, earned her BA in Translation from Queens and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. She worked as an editor in feminist publishing, lived in Paris, moved to Australia, and has taught in universities worldwide. Her publications include academic works, criticism, and short fiction and translations in SFF and literary venues. The Hunger of Those Who Built It<\/i> is her first novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A literary solarpunk novel coming in September 2026.<\/p>\n

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