The First Thousand Trees

Mohamed, Premee

$11.99
  • 2025 CIBA Booksellers’ List Selection

    “One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction.” — Booklist

    The final instalment in The Annual Migration of Clouds trilogy

    Henryk Mandrusiak, finding nothing left for him in his community following his best friend Reid’s departure, travels through the devastated land in search of a new place to call home.

    After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: He sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle’s village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place — rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up — isn’t easy. Henryk strives to carve out a place of his own but learns that some corners of his broken world are darker than he could have imagined.

    This stunning novella concludes the story Mohamed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain, bleaker than ever but still in search of a spark of hope in the climate apocalypse.

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  • Premee Mohamed is a Nebula-, World Fantasy–, and Aurora Award–winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, AB. She is the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels, as well as several novellas, and her short fiction has appeared in many venues.

  • Published: September 2025

    ISBN: 9781770417342

    Dimensions: 5 x 8 in.

    Pages: 156

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Reviews

“Readers of climate fiction and post-climate apocalypse stories, such as Alix E. Harrow’s The Knight and the Butcherbird and Mohamed’s own The Butcher of the Forest, will want to dive deep into this compelling and chilling series.” — Library Journal

“It tells a good story and tells it well…” — Locus

“It’s a fast, well-written read that poses questions that can still resonate with us all.” — The Seaboard Review

“This novella is emotionally bold, telling the story of Henryk and his journey to find himself in the wild, and coming to terms with even the darkest of places along the way. I’m excited for readers to discover Premee’s ambitious writing, and then be hungry to read her backlist as well!” — Brandi Morpurgo, Daisy Chain Book Co.

“Mohamed wraps up a tension-filled narrative of shock and survival that began with Reid in The Annual Migration of Clouds (2021) and brings everything full circle in the end. Recommended for public-library cli-fi collections.” — Booklist

The First Thousand Trees is a satisfying and thoughtful conclusion to the trilogy, and Mohamed offers readers a profound meditation on survival, humanity, and hope.” — Helena Ramsaroop