How To Build A Home For The End Of The World, by Keely Shinners

In the midst of widespread drought, the Sorensens have been relatively sheltered in their hometown of Fox Lane, Illinois, But, when all the water in their lake disappears overnight, family bonds begin to unravel, Seventeen-year-old Mary-Beth , hell-bent on saving the girl she loves, convinces her father Donny to go on a road trip to California. Along the way they meet inventors and academics, ancestors and desert healers, angels and ghosts, all while reckoning with faultlines of their past to imagine a better future, a remade home in the world