Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel

Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel

Named a Best Book of the Year byÂ The Washington Post, NPR, Â Vanity Fair, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Refinery 29, Men's Journal, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Los Angeles Magazine, Powells, BookPageÂ andÂ Kirkus ReviewsÂ

The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning â€œ5 Under 35â€ fiction writer.
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In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkinsâ€™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 â€œMojavs,â€ 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 Angelesâ€™ Laurel Canyon, two young Mojavsâ€”Luz, once a poster child for the Bureau of Conservation and its enemies, and Ray, a veteran of the â€œforever warâ€ turned surferâ€”squat in a starletâ€™s abandoned mansion. Holdouts, they subsist on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise.

The coupleâ€™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 dowserâ€”a diviner for waterâ€”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, Watkinsâ€™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.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-29
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-29
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel

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