![]() ![]() So that got us thinking about what could happen if so many millions of people were struggling to survive without water.”Įerily, their fictional storyline continued to reflect real-life natural disasters. In California, we are constantly dealing with drought, and the possibility of the state running out of water has become frighteningly close. ![]() “Jarrod came up with the concept of a society in which critical services are about to be shut off, and the pieces of Dry began coming together. “I think that our story was one of the best in the book, and we wanted to work on something else together,” Neal explained. Neal and Jarrod began talking about collaborating on a novel a few years ago, after co-writing a piece for 2015’s Unbound, a story collection set in the world of Neal’s Unwind Dystology. The California residents are all too familiar with the harrowing and tragic consequences of severe drought and uncontrollable wildfires, and their home state’s recent, and ongoing, struggles with both fueled the premise of their YA thriller, in which a teen is forced to make life-and-death decisions for her family when a drought escalates to catastrophic proportions. Father-and-son authors Neal and Jarrod Shusterman didn’t have to search far to find inspiration for their first collaboration, Dry, out this month from Simon & Schuster with a 200,000-copy first printing. ![]()
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