Gold Fame Citrus

Resumen del libro

Desert sands have laid waste to the south-west 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 other's need.

Luz needs Ray, and Ray must be needed. But then they cross paths with a mysterious child, and the thirst for a better future begins.

It's said there's a man on the edge of the Dune Sea.

He leads a camp of believers. He can find water. Venturing into this dry heart of darkness, Luz thinks she has found their saviour.

For the will to survive taps hidden powers; and the needed, and the needy, will exploit it.

Like Margaret Atwood, Claire Vaye Watkins uses dystopia to traverse the scarred frontier of the heart, exploring the myths we tell about others and ourselves. In her bare and brilliant prose, nature and human nature, conspiracy and cult, motherhood and manhood are played out across the vast, implacable desert.

Biografía del autor

Claire Vaye Watkins (Bishop, California, 1984) se crio en el desierto de Mojave, primero en Tecopa, California, y después en Pahrump, Nevada. Tras graduarse en la Universidad de Nevada en Reno, obtuvo un Máster en Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Ohio State. Es autora de la colección de cuentos Nevada (2012), por la que ganó los prestigiosos Story Prize y Dylan Thomas Prize, y de las novelas Gold Fame Citrus (2015) y I Love but Ix{0026} x02019;ve Chosen Darkness (2021). Sus relatos y ensayos han aparecido en publicaciones como Granta, Tin House, Freemanx{0026} x02019;s, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, New American Stories, Best of the West, The New Republic, The New York Times o Pushcart Prize XLIII. En la actualidad da clases en la Universidad de California Irvine y vive en Twentynine Palms.