In this book, Rob Carney skips ahead to the ending, setting his unnamed Listen-Recorder in a near-future landscape newly wrecked by drought. The sky is now cloudless, and the city's faucets are dry. No one has adjusted yet, but some gather in an empty river to grieve, remember, and to tell their stories, the stories that become this book.
The Book of Drought would be a new myth for the 21st century except that it's true: The West is on fire, and the rivers are drying, and we might soon be like this book's grieving characters, coming together to remember the green world we've lost.
