New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Manhattan is under water (sea levels have risen 50 feet) and people live and work in the upper stories of the city's skyscrapers. Skyscrapers are islands and streets have become canals. The book follows several of the inhabitants of one building, male and female. The main characters are all likable even some that seem self-centered at first.
Robinson sometimes is given to some long expository passages which he mentions with a wink in the text:
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But pause ever so slightly—and those of you anxious to get back to the narrating of the antics of individual humans can skip to the next chapter, and know that any more expository rants, any more info dumps (on your carpet) from this New Yorker will be printed in red ink to warn you to skip them (not)—pause, broader-minded more intellectually flexible readers, to consider why the First Pulse happened in the first place.
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I read it on my kindle so I'm not sure if there really is red ink or not. It was one of my favorites from last year. I'm usually somewhat put off by the length of his novels but I am quickly engaged once I start.
https://locusmag.com/2017/04/gary-k-...ey-robinson-3/