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Dust
Dust: A Novel | Alison Stine
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When her reclusive family relocates to climate-ravaged Colorado, sixteen-year-old Thea, who is hard of hearing, finds community and potential love with Ray, a Deaf boy.
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Nebklvr
Dust: A Novel | Alison Stine
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When their family moves from Ohio to Colorado, Thea and her little sister Amelia lose their home and friends. The author does almost too good of a job portraying the stifling,dry, dusty atmosphere of their isolated farm house. The many descriptions of the devastated land bereft of water became a bit repetitive. Thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss.

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MaggieCarr
Dust: A Novel | Alison Stine
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Publishes December 3, 2024

Dust is a YA book with a variety of themes that would work well for a book club discussion or topic driven papers. Thea is born partially Deaf to a family who refuses to believe it, her dad has premonitions causing the family to, stockpile resources, relocate and go off grid outside a community dealing with the reprocussions of corporate farming and the destruction of commodities. (Continued in comments)

MaggieCarr (continued) Out of desperation, Thea is allowed to get a job and she slowly builds community, friendships, and a light romance along with the gift of starting to learn ASL without her parents approval.

I saw similarities to 'How To Survive Everything' (Ewan Morrison). And enjoyed learning the historical context to Black Sunday and dust storms of the past come with connections in modern day farming techniques in a climate changing world.
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