The Water Knife

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Along their journey, they encounter Lucy Monroe, an award-winning journalist, who is being tortured by rivals seeking to locate the senior water rights. However, betrayal; soon follows, as each individual has their own uses for the document, and it becomes a question of who they can trust. Update this section! The introduction, author biography, discussion questions, and suggested reading that follow are designed to enhance your group’s discussion of The Water Knife,an arresting new novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. Introduction

As a water knife, Angel’s job is to strategically cut the water from rival towns and cities for his boss, Catherine Case, the “Queen of the Colorado.” In Phoenix, Angel meets up with Julio Gúzman, another one of Case’s agents. Together they investigate the murder of James Sanderson, a legal associate with Phoenix Water. Jamie also happens to be a friend of Lucy, and the three encounter each other while viewing Jamie’s mutilated remains.Of course, this is a novel about climate change. Bacigalupi throws some pithy observations, with weighty contemporary relevance, into the mouths of his characters.

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How does The Water Knifecompare to Bacigalupi’s previous novels? What common themes are evident among the works? Are they treated similarly in each work? What do the characters have in common? Do any universal views or themes begin to emerge? About this Author The Water Knife is an noir-tinged, apocalyptic vision of the near-future: What will the world be like, and how will we live in it? Bacigalupi already seems to live there. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down.”—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble