When night falls, the doomed street is engulfed more completely than anywhere else in the city.Īnd there you are. A six-lane corridor that will cleave the neighborhood in half, right along this very street, in a brutal rite of passage called eminent domain. And just beyond are bulldozers and rubble, and beyond that, towering concrete pillars reach skyward like the columns of an ancient temple.īecause a freeway is coming. Most doors and windows have been stripped and salvaged, leaving the homes with the deadest of eyes and gaping, silent mouths. The trees on either side have already been taken down, their trunks turned into firewood, their limbs fed into a chipper. It has been sacrificed for the greater good. The neighborhood struggles and sometimes even thrives. This was once suburbia, but it was long ago consumed by a gelatinous urban tsunami. Today it’s a room in a house on a street that was born when dreams were milky-white appliances, and cars were like landlocked ships, too proud to ever be slung with seat belts. I am, if nothing else, your final defense – your last hope when hope itself has spiraled into that singularity that crushes not just you, but everyone around you.Īnd so here we are, you and I.
But I cast a spell that can bring back the dead. But I can save you from the one who claims to be. He and Neal are adapting Dry for the screen. Follow him on Twitter: Jarrod Shusterman writes for film and television, and his talents extend to directing films and commercials. He also writes screenplays for film and television, for shows such as Goosebumps and Animorphs. Neal Shusterman is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include the acclaimed Arc of a Scythe series (Scythe, Thunderhead and The Toll) and Dry, as well as the Unwind series and Challenger Deep, which won a National Book Award in America. The only question is… Which one? Roxy is a chilling take on the opioid epidemic by the New York Times bestselling Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, suitable for ages 14+ This is the start of a race to the bottom that will determine life and death. Isaac is desperate to recover from a sports injury that jeopardizes his chance of a scholarship. Ivy is under-stimulated and overmedicated. Roxy and Addison have made a wager to see who can be lethal the quickest. But here they are malevolent gods, toying with the fates of mortals. Humans know the partygoers simply as “narcotics”, “opioids”, “drugs”. I’m kicking off the blog tour for the new book by father and son writing duo Neal and Jarrod Shusterman.Ībove our world is a toxic wonderland where the party has raged for centuries.
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