A human spirit, convinced of literature’s power to transform how we see the world, calls upon aquatic entities—River, Sea, Ocean, Flood, Stream, Waterfall, Marsh, Lake, Lagoon. These elemental forces come together to tell a story: one that speaks to the urgent need to protect the water cycle, resist the resurgence of fascism, and restore the broken bonds between humanity and the living world.
In this bold new novel, Wendy Delorme masterfully intertwines timelines set in the present and the future, giving voice to water itself. At once dystopian and utopian, this genre-defying book is part ecological fable, part political chronicle, part poetic investigation into the origin of a stream—the Rize—and a profound meditation on writing as a tool for resistance and renewal. With striking precision and an intoxicating sensuality, Delorme crafts a narrative that sweeps the reader away—an urgent, luminous page-turner that leaves you changed, emboldened, and deeply attuned to the pulse of the planet.
