The Desert Reasserts Itself

On the Media | Nov 24, 2017

In Claire Vaye Watkins' most recent book, Gold Fame Citrus, extreme drought has left California baked and barren — and a massive dune threatens the entire Southwest. Watkins talks to Brooke about the world she imagines, and the pain of being a climate change refugee. Storytelling, she says, might help the public understand the real looming threats.

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