Water

Biblical and hypnotizing, Water tells the dual-story of when the world flooded and when the world burned. Concentrating simultaneously on the apocryphal 'Boy' and 'Girl' who tell and retell about the loss of words as a landscape, and all the violent children who stand in a rain of hammers ripping one another open, the buzz and hum of this novel(la) is linguistically taunting and beautifully rendered.