•A literary thriller set in the near-future, Turnback Ridge engages with current and complex issues such as changes to immigration policy and attitudes, climate crisis, and the danger of the potential monetization of climate solutions.
•The plight of immigrants is near to the author's heart, since she herself is an immigrant. Her protagonist is caught out by bureaucracy and changing immigration regulations, and his family is eventually caught in the web of an unforgiving system.
•The novel fits the growing trend of literary fiction that embraces the tropes of genre fiction to examine climate change—such as Alex DiFrancesco's All City or Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow.
