Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis

Author Claire Boyles discusses the challenge of writing her new novel, Appraisals, which explores the water crisis in the American West. As Literary Hub tells it, Boyles struggled to balance the political complexities of water law and climate anxiety with the personal relationships of her characters. She argues that fiction allows readers to engage with difficult environmental perspectives that they might otherwise resist in real life.

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