Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel

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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
Author	Claire Vaye Watkins
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780698195943
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
NumberOfPages	343
PublicationDate	2015-09-29
Publisher	Riverhead Books
ReleaseDate	2015-09-29
Studio	Riverhead Books

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