num_pages: 287
description: Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook California where its sunny 340 days of the year and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly but Pearl doesnt pay much attention to them . . . until Amiel. From the moment she sees him Pearl is drawn to this boy who keeps to himself fears being caught by la migra and is mysteriously unable to talk. And after coming across Amiels makeshift hut near Agua Prieta Creek Pearl falls into a precarious friendshipand a forbidden romance.Then the wildfires strike. Fallbrookthe town of marigolds and palms blood oranges and sweet limesis threatened by the Agua Prieta fire and a mandatory evacuation order is issued. But Pearl knows that Amiel is in the direct path of the fire with no one to warn him no way to get out. Slipping away from safety and her family Pearl moves toward the dark creek where the smoke has become air the air smoke. Laura McNeal has crafted a beautiful and haunting novel full of peril desperation and love.
language: English
title: Dark Water
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf