An Absence of Water-novel excerpt Sol
Atonement and drought are absent of water. Things that are present with me this Yom Kippur are also connected observing an absence of water. I only fasted one Yom Kippur. It was 2006. I was in Guatemala and my brother was deployed in Iraq. I considered, tried, failed to fast on other Yom Kippurs as a means to feel connected across distance. The novel I am currently writing is about an imbalance in the world's water, our water. The novel I am currently writing believes that
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