Open the Floodgates
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Pub Date Sep 15 2026 | Archive Date Nov 26 2026
Reverberations Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
In an unnamed California town, the River is granted personhood and has the right-and urgent need-to argue in court for its existence. But powerful, well funded enemies are determined to keep the River exactly as it is: gunk-filled, toxic, a convenient dumping ground for waste.
The story moves like water, entering the minds of the town's people, pigeons, deer, dogs, cats, the trees, the River's home, and the River itself. When the River is ultimately jailed, the town faces a reckoning: what do we owe the River? And the River must answer in turn: what, if anything, does it owe humans?
Advance Praise
“A magical novel all its own. A story, a fable if you will, moving and so desperately needed at this moment when the natural world, all that sustains us, must be listened to.”
—Greg Sarris, author of The Last Human Bear
Nina Schuyler has written a perfect allegory for our climate crises times. Part courtroom drama, part fable, part thriller, OPEN THE FLOODGATES is a genre defying novel that is at once suspenseful and magical. The River leads us readers on a surprising yet inevitable journey.
—Devi S. Laskar, author of Midnight, at the War
“Original, compelling, and lyrical, Open the Floodgates provides the perfect balance between confronting the horrors of human-led environmental change and hope for the tides to change with community action.”
—Kelsey Squire, Your Impossible Voice
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781634051040 |
| PRICE | 24.95 |
| PAGES | 224 |