I waited too long to write this review and so I've forgotten everything about it, which usually means it was above 3 stars but not above 4 because either way it would be more memorable :) I only have a couple of notes, so usually that means it was pretty good. The highlights I have were about how well it described what's it's like to be in a small town in a drought.
Soon they’d discover that the veggies didn’t grow as willingly as they had in the city window box. That every single green shoot had to be coaxed and prized from the reluctant soil, and the neighbors were too busy doing the same on an industrial scale to muster much cheer in their greetings. There was no daily bumper-to-bumper commute, but there was also nowhere much to drive to.
Arrivals looked around at the barrenness and the scale and the sheer bloody hardness of the land, and before long their faces all said exactly the same thing. I didn’t know it was like this. He turned away, remembering how the rawness of local life had seeped into the kids’ paintings at the school. Sad faces and brown landscapes.
3.5 stars
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