Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg

Wonderful continuation of a story begun in The Story of Arthur Truluv. The marvelous characters are complex and delightful. Truly a story, I loved and did not want to end because everyone and everything mattered. The small town of Mason is also definitely a significant "character".

This Is The Way The World Ends by Jeff Nesbit

An eye-opening narrative about the horrific consequences for the World of the depletion of freshwater resources that increasingly trigger armed conflicts and migrations as humans struggle to obtain the essentials of water and food. Wealthy nations like Saudi Arabia and China buy up land in the US to grow food for their citizens while others like Yemen have millions of their citizens die from bombing and starvation. Heartbreaking yet also importantly informative about this global crisis which threatens the continued existence of life on Earth.