August 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
A lot of people ask me about the specter of rape in NOT A DROP TO DRINK. While you’ll never find the actual word anywhere in the text, it hangs over the whole like a storm about to break. Lynn, Mother and Neva all express their fears in different ways, but each one of them […]
September 17, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Like many readers, I am obsessed with the apocalypse in any form. I’m pretty sure my obsession began way back when I read The Stand by Stephen King. Earlier this year, I was introduced to Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis, a post-apocalyptic thriller that asks us to imagine a world where water […]
May 13, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
There was a time when NUCLEAR WAR was the thing we feared most. People built bomb shelters outside their homes and prepared for the day when THE BIG ONE would be dropped. As a kid, I remember begging to stay up one school night and watch a TV movie called The Day After. Whatever you […]
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