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Book Synopsis________________________''A terrifying thriller ... Visceral'' - Entertainment Weekly''An emergency from its very first sentence ... A literary thriller that summons the survivalist terror of The Road'' - Patrick Somerville, author of
This Bright River ________________________WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE WATER RAN DRY?On a searing summer evening, Eddie Chapman has been stuck in a traffic jam for hours. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his carand run home, he sees that the trees have been burned and the water in the stream bed is gone. Something is very wrong.When he arrives home, there is a power cut and no running water. The pipes everywhere, it seems, are dry. Eddie and his wife, Laura, find themselves thrust together with their neighbours while a sense of unease thickens in the stifling night air.
Thirst takes place in the immediate aftermath
Trade ReviewA
terrifying thriller ...
Visceral * Entertainment Weekly *
A
timely, necessary, character-driven meditation on morality, society, and responsibility.
Thirst presses us,
accuses and
implicates us in the failures of its characters * Chicago Review of Books *
A tense, prescient journey into a collective environmental nightmare — one that’s not very hard to imagine actually happening. This book tapped into fears
I didn’t know I had. Warner has given us a
worthy, shocking, and poetic debut * Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River and The Cradle *
Thirst mirrors the deep anxiety so many feel about modern life: that its complexity makes it fragile and that
we're all living on the edge of disaster * Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow and Epitaph *
A
gripping parable of love and survival as well as a
harrowing exploration of our darkest selves.
Thrilling and
thought-provoking, and dazzling in scope, Benjamin Warner's debut is a
surprising, profound portrait of desperation and humanity — and who we are when we are stripped down to our most basic needs * Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country *
Warner’s
devastating and
breathtaking debut is a novel about water. But it’s also about what it means to be in love, what it means to share — or to think you are sharing — your life with another person. This is a story about community (that ever slippery union) and, further still, about humanity ...
Warner taps into a universal: Even at our lowest, our loneliest, and in our most desperate hour, we are still human, still connected ...
Read this book. It will make you a better person * Hannah Pittard, author of Reunion *
