Today I read something a little different, "Something in the Water" by Phyllis R. Dixon. This is about a water crisis, much like Detroit that we all heard about. Some of the incidents in the book were drawn from real life events. A Black family relocates from California back to the husband's home town in Texas. Billie, the wife, has lost her job in Oakland, their son is in re-hab for opiate addiction and their daughter is in the military. Cole, the husband, thinks they will have a great new start in this small mostly Black town. It is a huge change for Billie who grew up in California and never lived anywhere else. She is also more "upper class" and has been an activist her whole life. She finds out about the terrible water issues and is determined to do something about it causing lots of problems. Pretty good read and very informative about water problems. The parts about her son were kind of hard as it brought back memories for me. I may look for other books by this author.
