A terrifying thriller ... Visceral
Entertainment Weekly
A timely, necessary, character-driven meditation on morality, society, and responsibility. Thirst presses us, accuses and implicates us in the failures of its characters
Chicago Review of Books
A tense, prescient journey into a collective environmental nightmare - one that's not very hard to imagine actually happening. This book tapped into fears I didn't know I had. Warner has given us a worthy, shocking, and poetic debut
Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River and The Cradle
Thirst mirrors the deep anxiety so many feel about modern life: that its complexity makes it fragile and that we're all living on the edge of disaster
Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow and Epitaph
A gripping parable of love and survival as well as a harrowing exploration of our darkest selves. Thrilling and thought-provoking, and dazzling in scope, Benjamin Warner's debut is a surprising, profound portrait of desperation and humanity - and who we are when we are stripped down to our most basic needs
Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country
Warner's devastating and breathtaking debut is a novel about water. But it's also about what it means to be in love, what it means to share - or to think you are sharing - your life with another person. This is a story about community (that ever slippery union) and, further still, about humanity ... Warner taps into a universal: Even at our lowest, our loneliest, and in our most desperate hour, we are still human, still connected ... Read this book. It will make you a better person
Hannah Pittard, author of Reunion