Suffice it to say that it is covering fairly new ground in teen lit. I would not have picked up on the point of the story at all, if not for an observation by one of the characters I would discuss it, because it's an interesting theme, but the reveal is a part of what makes the story interesting, so I won't. Partly because I thought it was going to be a dystopia, which it did seem to be for a while, but then it turned out to be something else. And Ruby is starting to suspect that her father may never return to save them.ĭrought is a really strange book. Only they may not be strong enough to rescue the Congregation from Darwin West. Like her father's, Ruby's blood has amazing healing powers. They lied though about what turns water into Water Darwin West, the man who enslaves them, does not know that there is Water only because Ruby drops some of her blood into it. In his absence, they have been forced into servitude, made to gather Water so that others may share in the magic. Ruby's father, Otto, led them and gave them long life through the power of his blood, but then he left.
She and her mother and the rest of the Congregation have all lived for centuries. This is perhaps most obvious in the fact that she is actually 200. Ruby is in no way your average 17 year old girl. When she's not writing, working or parenting, Pam likes to read books not aimed at her age group, go to museums and theater performances, and watch far too much television. She currently lives in the metropolitan New Jersey area with her husband and their son. Pam draws inspiration from the places she knows best: she wrote CANDOR while living in a Florida planned community, and set DROUGHT in the woods where she spent her summers as a child.
Her mother is not happy that Pam's degrees are stored under her bed. Pam attended college in Boston and finally decided she was finished after earning four degrees: a BS in Journalism, a BA in Environmental Science, a Masters in Library Science and an MBA. With a little persuasion she will belt out tunes from "The Music Man" and "The Fantasticks", but she knows better than to play cello in public anymore. Pam Bachorz grew up in a small town in the Adirondack foothills, where she participated in every performance group and avoided any threat of athletic activity, unless it involved wearing sequined headpieces and treading water.
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