Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

An acclaimed “5 Under 35” fiction writer’s much-anticipated 1st novel

In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins’s tale collection, Battleborn, swept just about any award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded being a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with an initial novel that may more than match readers’ expectations, harnessing the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut therefore arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly dreamed near future.

Inside a parched southern about Gold Fame Citrus: A Book 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 inside a starlet’s abandoned mansion. Most “Mojavs,” avoided by equipped vigilantes from openly crossing borders to lusher regions, possess allowed themselves to become evacuated to encampments in the east. Holdouts like Ray and Luz subsist on rationed cola and water, and whatever they are able to loot, scavenge, and improvise.

For the moment, the couple’s fragile love, which somehow blooms within this arid place, seems plenty of. But when they mix paths with a mystical child, the thirst for an improved future begins. Going east, they may be waylaid in the desert by a captivating and manipulative dowser – a diviner for drinking water — and his cultlike supporters, who have created a colony in a incomprehensible sea of dunes.

Greatly moving, profoundly disquieting, and mind-blowingly original, Watkins’s novel explores the myths we believe about others and tell approximately ourselves, the double-edged power of our most cherished relationships, and the shape of hope inside a precarious future which may be our own.