12 Books to Read If You Already Tore Through The Handmaid's Tale

After a drought devastates the West Coast, the area enters an effective quarantine in which nobody can cross from the catastrophically damaged coastline to the less-affected east. It's in this scavenger hell that Gold Fame Citrus's heroine, Luz, finds a child who has been left to fend for herself. Luz quickly realizes that the only way to ensure that this young girl has a future is to find a way out of California and into the promised land. Author Claire Vaye Watkins tells the story of her escape into the unknown.