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From the author of The Inland Sea, Madeleine Watts brings us her latest novel, Elegy, Southwest, a profound consideration of the way we now live alongside environmental breakdown.
Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American Southwest. While wildfires rage, the couple trace the course of the Colorado River, the aquatic artery on which the Southwest depends for survival. When Eloise suspects that she might be pregnant, she hopes to turn Lewis’s attention from the past to the future, but Lewis is still grieving his mother’s death. As they drive, they watch as the river threatens to dry up and their relationship begins to fracture.
We are welcoming back writer, editor, art critic and graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Chloë Ashby, to chair the discussion. Chloë is the author of Wet Paint, Second Self and Colours of Art.