Watershed

“Doreen Vanderstoop takes us into a future that feels more likely every day. The Van Bruggen family could be any of us, forced to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Watershed is a timely, beautifully rendered and prescient work.” ANN ERIKSSON author of The Performance

“Riveting . . . Watershed is the best kind of futuristic fiction, the kind that becomes grass-roots reality as we read.” WAYNE GRADY author of Up from Freedom

“This timely novel offers both a disturbing vision of what could be our not-too-distant future, and an inspiring reminder of the strength and courage ordinary people can draw from one another during troubled times. It offers a convincing portrayal of an Alberta contending with the consequences of its long obsession with oil profits, in which water has now become the force that drives power, money and politics. Ms. Vanderstoop’s dystopian novel marries love of place, the power of human relationships and the hard reality of climate change to produce a work that should challenge a lot of our contemporary obsessions. This is a cautionary tale about what really matters, rendered the more powerful by the fact that it could very well prove to be as much a work of prophecy as of fiction.” KEVIN VAN TIGHEM author of Our Place: Changing the Nature of Alberta

“This is us with just a few more decades on the Doomsday Clock. A future too well imagined, too likeable and plausible, to disown.” FRED STENSON author of Who by Fire