An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin.

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria's father tends, which once provided water for her whole village.

But secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father's death the army starts watching their town--and Noria. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship.

Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible.

--Library Journal (starred review) on Memory of Water

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Voyager
Published: 06/10/2014
ISBN: 9780062326157
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/07/2014
Library Journal 05/15/2014 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2014
Romantic Times 06/01/2014 pg. 60 - Good
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2014 - Recommended - Better Than Most