The authors’ swap between each character’s perspective and describe thoughts and feelings perfectly.Įx Libris could not have selected a better book to read as the world continues to navigate this current COVID-19 pandemic.”

The plot itself and the action described and written in the book is astounding. The duration of my time reading this book, I was so captivated that for a minute, I forgot that California wasn’t actually in a drought. Throughout the story, as the Tap-Out increasingly becomes worse, deadly forest fires begin, no one is able to get out of California, people are killing for a small amount of water, and others are dying from thirst.

It shows just how far humanity will go to survive and how quickly society can decline when met with life or death decisions. “Dry” gives readers a doomsday perspective on what could have happened if California had truly been in that horrific of a drought. The people of California had been living in a drought for a while but then one day, at the beginning of the novel, all taps run dry. “Tap-Out” describes the conditions of the drought.

The novel “Dry” follows two siblings, Alyssa and Garrett, and their disaster-ready neighbor, Kelton, as they try to survive the “Tap-Out” that their home state of California is experiencing. The book was recently included on the Starr’s Mill book club, Ex Libris,” monthly book list. Following the fictional yet realistic scenario of a drought in California, the book “Dry” re-envisions the pre-existing droughts in California as drastic and destructive.įather and son author duo, Neal and Jarrod Shusterman, published the book “Dry” on Oct.

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