Gold Fame Citrus

Product Description A Mad Max World Painted With A Finer Brush Elle An Unforgettable Journey Into A Hauntingly Imagined NearFuture Ruth OzekiSet In A DroughtRavaged Southern California Trolled By Scavengers, Gold Fame Citrus Burns With A Dizzying, Scorching Genius Vanity Fair Desert Sands Have Laid Waste To The SouthWest Of America. Las Vegas Is Buried. California And Anyone Still There Is Stranded. Any Way Out Is Severely Restricted. But Luz And Ray Are Not Leaving. They Survive On Water Rations, Black Market Fruit And Each OtherS Need. Luz Needs Ray, And Ray Must Be Needed. But Then They Cross Paths With A Mysterious Child, Who Needs Them More Than Anything And The Thirst For A Better Life Begins.Claire Vaye WatkinsS MuchAnticipated And Lauded First Novel Delivers On Her Promise As One Of AmericaS Best New Writers. Review An Extraordinary Novel:Relentlessly Brilliant, Utterly Fearless, And Often Savagely Funny. Watkins Explores The Maze Of Human Thirst In All Its Forms. HereS A Love Story That Tracks The Mutating Hopes Of Two Lost Souls, In Prose That Is FeverBright And Ferociously Assured. More Confirmation Thatwatkins Is One Of The Brightest Stars In Our Firmamenta TourDeForce First Novel Blisters With Drought, Myth, And Originality . . . Praised For Writing Landscape, Watkins Grasp Of The Body Is Just As Rousing . . . Critics Will Reference Annie ProulxS Bite And Joan DidionS Hypnotic West, Butwatkins Is Magnificently Originalagripping, Audacious Novel, Plausibly Imagined In All Its Remarkable Details. With Claire Vaye Watkins There Was Never Promise: It Was Achievement From The Start, And This Book Repays Her Admirers In Spadesan Unforgettable Journey Into A Hauntingly Imagined NearFuture. With HermindBending Vision, Breathtaking Storytelling And Utterly Original Voice, Claire Vaye Watkins Is One Of My Favorite Writersset In An Increasingly PlausibleSeeming Future In Which Drought Has Transformed Southern California Into A Howling Wasteland, This Debut Novel By The Author Of The PrizeWinning Story Collectionbattleborn Finds Two Refugees Of The Water Wars Holed Up In A StarletS Abandoned Mansion In L.A.S Laurel Canyon. Seeking Lusher Landscape, The Pair Head East, Risking Attack By Patrolling Authorities, Roving Desperadoes, And The Unrelenting Sunexhilarating, Upsetting, Delirious, Bold,Gold Fame Citrus Is A Head Rush Of A Novel And Establishes Claire Vaye Watkins Asan Important New Voice In American Literaturea SunHammered Fever Dream, Not Unlike The Shimmering, Sweltering Southwest It Depicts.Your Heart Will Be Wrung Out By The Journey Of Luz, Raymond, And Ig. Your Imagination Will Feast On The Assured Depiction Of A NearFuture That Is Burnt To A Crisp. And YouLl Hope ItS All A Mirage As Watkins Renders A Hot And Very Plausible Future The Frightening Force Of A Burning Inevitabilitythe Book Is Packed With Persuasive Detail,Luminous Writing, And A Grasp Of The History (Popular, Political, Natural And Imagined) Needed To Tell A Story That Is Original Yet Familiar, Strange Yet All Too Believableamerican Odyssey: Set In A DroughtRavaged Southern California Trolled By Scavengers,Gold Fame Citrus Burns With Adizzying, Scorching Genius Watkins Brings Agorgeous Sense Of Language And A Native DesertDwellerS Understanding Of California To Her Audacious And Dystopian First Novel . . . The Drought, The Desperation And The Fantasy Built By The Guru All Feeldisturbingly Real Book Description Haunting And Beautifully Written First Novel By The AwardWinning Author Ofbattleborn, Set Among A Cult Of Survivors In A Dystopian American Desert About The Author Claire Vaye Watkins Was Raised In The Mojave Desert, In California And Nevada. Her Writing Has Appeared In Granta, The Paris Review, New York Times And Elsewhere. Her Short Story Collection, Battleborn, Won Five Awards, Including The Dylan Thomas Award; Was Finalist Fo