Atlantic Trivia for April 9, 2026: Cities, Islands, and Island Cities
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The books of Nancy Lemann—including Lives of the Saints, The Oyster Diaries, and The Ritz of the Bayou—take place mostly in what city?
It’s in Louisiana.
And by the way, did you know that the Maldives—a low-lying archipelago threatened by sea-level change—is constructing a fully floating city that can rise with the ocean?
Blueprints show rainbow-colored homes and shops that residents get to on foot, by boat, or via electric buggy, all while the whole enormous structure gently sways in the waves. It’s charming, at least until you reckon with the reason it needs to exist in the first place.
See you tomorrow.
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