03854cam a2200565 i 4500 306339048 TxAuBib 20151012120000.0 150413s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015013564 2015013564 9781594634239 $27.95 1594634238 $27.95 9781594634246 1594634246 (OCoLC)907391179 TxAuBib rda eng eng Watkins, Claire Vaye. Gold fame citrus / Claire Vaye Watkins. Gold fame citrus. New York : Riverhead Books, 2015. New York, New York : Riverhead Books, [2015] pages ; cm. 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the wake of a devastating Southern California drought, two idealistic holdouts fall in love and scavenge for their needs before taking charge of a mysterious child and embarking on a perilous journey in search of water. "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 water and 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20151012. Droughts Fiction. Droughts California Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Political. Droughts. Interpersonal relations. Dystopias. Southern California Fiction. California. Dystopian fiction. Fiction. 9781594634239.jpg Cover image TXMAR