Welcome Pam Bachorz, author of Drought and Candor
Today we welcome author Pam Bachorz. Pam is the author of the YA novels Candor and her latest is Drought . Publishers Weekly called it: “[A] complex, provocative exploration of loyalty, community, family and belief.” We are reading Drought now and the world Pam creates is thought provoking. The cover is great too, one of the best we've seen this year. Here'a the summary for Drought (from Goodreads): Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from struggling to gather the life-prolonging Water that keeps the Congregants alive--and Darwin rich. Escape from her certain, dreary existence, living as if it's still the early 1800s, when the Congregation was first enslaved. But if Ruby leaves, the Congregation will die without the secret ingredient to the Water: her blood. So she stays, and prays to their savior Otto, who first gave Water to the Congregants... and fathered Ruby before he vanished. When the Congre