Each Of Us A Desert

"This book is a prayer, and it also feels like a warning. In a possible future, after a terrible environmental cataclysm, a desert society clings to life. As her community’s cuentista, teenage Xochtil absorbs the sins of her neighbors to protect them from physical manifestations of their guilt. But when a terrible act forces her to flee her community alongside a girl who ought to be her enemy, she begins to question everything she’s always believed. By turns the desert and the oasis, this lyrical book feels like the journey its characters embark upon as we walk with them through a stark but beautiful landscape."