Just a few days after the US presidential election, Prospect Park, located in the middle of Brooklyn, burst into flames. 

For Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks, who has long called America home, an autumn bushfire in the dense urban heart of Brooklyn was a scary sign of what’s to come under Donald Trump’s second term as US president.

Today, Geraldine Brooks on Trump’s America – and what it means for a burning planet. 

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Guest: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks

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