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In Watershed, Everett draws parallels between the current and historic treatment of both Black and Native Americans in the US. And, of course, he still infuses the book with his trademark humor. This was terrific, and I‘m not surprised—the man is a marvel.
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In this brutal near-future dystopia, water rights are the difference between life and death for cities in California, Arizona and New Mexico, and the powerful are willing to kill to keep their share. In the deadly ruins of Phoenix, Angel, an enforcer for Nevada and the "water knife" of the title; Lucy, a journalist caught up in the story; and Maria, a teenage Texan refugee, struggle to survive in a world of betrayal. Dark and all too plausible.

As she experimented with memoir, biography, and novels that contained elements of each, [Woolf] noticed that the process by which events are converted into history is inevitably distorting, for the past acquires in the telling a shape and coherence that is absent from the present. It's an observation that she expressed sharply when she came to write of her brother's death...

My sister took me to the new Barnes and Noble in Wicker Park in Chicago as part of my Christmas present. I got a couple of books from her and then finally broke my ban and bought some for myself. The nonfiction are from Barnes and Noble and the fiction are from another bookstore we hit up!

#bookhaul #haul #nonfiction

I could hear the water lapping almost at my heels, a flood tide rushing to glut the river. It rises and it falls, that flood, and in time it will have the barbastrelle and the brown-eared bat; it will have the Oak Eggar and the Garden Tiger; it will have the peregrine and the clattering jacks.

“From a little stream, to rivers wide, the water travels far and wide.“