LEADER 03223nam 22004813 450 001 9910136850603321 005 20241107100256.0 010 $a0-698-19594-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907528 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6108011 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6108011 035 $a(OCoLC)936186727 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002102389 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907528 100 $a20210901d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGold Fame Citrus $eA Novel 210 $d2015 210 1$aEast Rutherford :$cPenguin Publishing Group,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-59463-423-8 330 $a"The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future. Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. With the Central Valley barren, underground aquifer drained, and Sierra snowpack entirely depleted, most "Mojavs," prevented by both armed vigilantes and an indifferent bureaucracy from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to internment camps. In Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon, two young Mojavs. Luz, once a poster child for the Bureau of Conservation and its enemies, and Ray, a veteran of the "forever war" turned surfer--squat in a starlet's abandoned mansion. Holdouts, they subsist on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise. The couple's fragile love somehow blooms in this arid place, and for the moment, it seems enough. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, the thirst for a better future begins. They head east, a route strewn with danger: sinkholes and patrolling authorities, bandits and the brutal, omnipresent sun. Ghosting after them are rumors of a visionary dowser a diviner for waterand his followers, who whispers say have formed a colony at the edge of a mysterious sea of dunes. Immensely moving, profoundly disquieting, and mind-blowingly original, Watkins's novel explores the myths we believe about others and tell about ourselves, the double-edged power of our most cherished relationships, and the shape of hope in a precarious future that may be our own"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aDeserts$zCalifornia$vFiction 606 $aDroughts$zCalifornia$vFiction 606 $aInterpersonal relations$vFiction 615 0$aDeserts 615 0$aDroughts 615 0$aInterpersonal relations 676 $a813/.6 686 $aFIC019000$aFIC037000$2bisacsh 700 $aWatkins$b Claire Vaye$01247649 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136850603321 996 $aGold Fame Citrus$92892133 997 $aUNINA