Nick Fuller Googins is a fourth-grade teacher and author of the novel The Great Transition, a post-climate-crisis utopia, from Atria Books. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, the Paris Review, The Sun, and elsewhere. For 10 months of the year, he and his wife live in Biddeford, where, on calm days, they can hear the faint roar of the ocean through the trees.