Tour Post: In A Handful Of Dust

Today I'm taking part in something VERY exciting. Here is my stop on the In A Handful Of Dust Blog Tour! Read on for all the information about this epic companion novel to Not A Drop To Drink as well as a guest post from the author herself, Mindy McGinnis AND a giveaway. 

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IN A HANDFUL OF DUST 

by Mindy McGinnis

Pages: 384

Publication Date: September 23, 2014

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

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Summary

The only thing bigger than the world is fear. Lucy’s life by the pond has always been full. She has water and friends, laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure that Lucy’s childhood was very different from her own. Yet it seems Lucy’s future is settled already—a house, a man, children, and a water source—and anything beyond their life by the pond is beyond reach. When disease burns through their community, the once life-saving water of the pond might be the source of what’s killing them now. Rumors of desalinization plants in California have lingered in Lynn’s mind, and the prospect of a “normal” life for Lucy sets the two of them on an epic journey west to face new dangers: hunger, mountains, deserts, betrayal, and the perils of a world so vast that Lucy fears she could be lost forever, only to disappear in a handful of dust. In this companion to Not a Drop to Drink, Mindy McGinnis thrillingly combines the heart-swelling hope of a journey, the challenges of establishing your own place in the world, and the gripping physical danger of nature in a futuristic frontier.

By Mindy McGinnis

Why Yes, Orwell Would Enjoy This

A lot of people ask me how I came up with the idea for NOT A DROP TO DRINK. The scary answer is that I watched a documentary. The scarier answer is that was in 2010, and here in 2014 all I have to do is turn on the news.

Yep. A scant four years after watching a documentary titled Blue Gold which sent me to the ceiling and spawned awkward ice-breaking conversations from yours truly, most people know exactly what I’m talking about whenever I use the word water, followed by the panic-inducing words like crisis, situation, or scarcity.

California is staring down a mega-drought that could last into the next generation. The Colorado River appears to be drying up and the Southwest is depreciating underwater aquifers at a rate that they can never recover from. And that’s all gleaned from one article.

Recently in my home state of Ohio, half a million people lost their water when poisonous algae in Lake Erie made theirs taps unsafe. Ohio residents drove across the Midwest to purchase water, filling their carts Michigan and turning around to drive over 200 miles back home. And in this case, the Wolverines let the Buckeyes have their water because they had some to spare.

But what if they didn’t?

That’s the world of NOT A DROP TO DRINK, and by extension, IN A HANDFUL OF DUST. A world where the one thing that you and every person you care for will die without in three days, is scarce.

Does that make you think twice about picking up the book?

Then you should probably skip the news, too.

 About Mindy

Mindy McGinnis is an assistant YA librarian who lives in Ohio and cans her own food. She graduated from Otterbein University magna cum laude with a BA in English Literature and Religion. Mindy has a pond in her back yard but has never shot anyone, as her morals tend to cloud her vision.

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Tour Schedule

Week One

9/15/2014- A Dream Within A Dream- Interview

9/16/2014- Once Upon a Twilight- Review

9/17/2014- Curling Up With A Good Book- Review

9/18/2014- Reading with ABC- Guest Post

9/19/2014- Addicted Readers- Interview

Week Two

9/22/2014- Library of a Book Witch- Review

9/23/2014- Fiction Fare- Review

9/24/2014- The YA's Nightstand- Guest Post

9/25/2014- Owl Always Be Reading- Guest Post

9/26/2014- Magical Urban Fantasy Reads- Interview