Full name: Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel

Author: Claire Vaye Watkins Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Science fiction, Dystopia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594634246 1594634246

In a parched southern California of the near future, Luz, once the poster child for the country's conservation movement, and Ray, an army deserter turned surfer, are squatting in a starlet's abandoned mansion. Most "Mojavs," prevented by armed vigilantes from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to encampments in the east. Holdouts like Ray and Luz subsist on rationed cola and water, and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise. For the moment, the couple's fragile love, which somehow blooms in this arid place, seems enough. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, the thirst for a better future begins. 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. Similar books: Find Me by Laura van den Berg The Pesthouse by Jim Crace California by Edan Lepucki Into the Forest by Jean Hegland J by Howard Jacobson Far North by Marcel Theroux The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson Severance by Ling Ma Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson 1985 by Anthony Burgess In a Perfect World by Laura Kasischke Splinterlands by John Feffer In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton The Wall by John Lanchester A Friend of the Earth by T. Coraghessan Boyle Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard When the English Fall by David Williams