Winner (Bronze) of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science
Fiction); Winnner (Silver), 2020 Literary Titan Book Awards
Centuries from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what
used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in
the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide her with the answers to
her yearning for Earth's past--to the Age of Water, when the Water Twins
destroyed humanity in hatred--events that have plagued her nightly in
dreams. Looking for answers to this holocaust--and disturbed by her
macabre longing for connection to the Water Twins--Kyo is led to the
diary of a limnologist from the time just prior to the destruction. This
gritty memoir describes a near-future Toronto in the grips of severe
water scarcity during a time when China owns the USA and the USA owns
Canada. The diary spans a twenty-year period in the mid-twenty-first
century of 33-year-old Lynna, a single mother who works in Toronto for
CanadaCorp, an international utility that controls everything about
water, and who witnesses disturbing events that she doesn't realize will
soon lead to humanity's demise. A Diary in the Age of Water follows
the climate-induced journey of Earth and humanity through four
generations of women, each with a unique relationship to water. The
novel explores identity and our concept of what is normal--as a nation
and an individual--in a world that is rapidly and incomprehensibly
changing.
