CVGF0-9 Claire Vaye Watkins - Gold Fame Citrus.nfo
General Information
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Title: Gold Fame Citrus
Author: Claire Vaye Watkins
Read By: Jorjeana Marie, MacLeod Andrews
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Fiction - Sci-Fi - Dystopian
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Original CD lengths
Source: Overdrive MP3
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Number of MP3s: 9
Total Duration: 10:27:36
Total MP3 Size: 287.52
Parity Archive: No
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Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
An acclaimed "5 Under 35" fiction writer's much-anticipated first novel
In 2012 Claire Vaye Watkins' 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 will
more than meet listeners' hopes, harnessing the sweeping vision and
deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a
devastatingly imagined near future.
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. Heading east, they are
waylaid in the desert by a charming and manipulative dowser - a diviner
for water - and his cultlike followers, who have formed a colony in
a mysterious sea of dunes.
Immensely moving, profoundly disquieting, and mind-blowingly original,
Watkins' 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.
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