Fault Lines
Nora Shalaway Carpenter. Running Press/Hachette, Sept. 2023.
Winner of the 2024 Green Earth Book Award for YA Fiction, a 2024 Whippoorwill Honor for outstanding rural fiction, and a 2024 Nautilus Book Award Gold medal, FAULT LINES tells the intertwined story of two rural teens―one with a secret energetic connection to the earth, suffering immensely from damage caused by fracking―and the other depending on fracking completely, his mother’s pipelining job being the only thing keeping them off the street.
Riveting, powerful, and a little bit magical, ...