Thriller Adaptation Poll: Will you see Dry Will See 241 Won't See 6 Who stars in Dry: Cast List No cast available. Although her family isn’t as prepared for the Tap-Out as Kelton’s, Alyssa is smart and resourceful.

A point-of-view character and one of the main protagonists of Dry, she’s a romantic interest of both Kelton and Henry. Agent: Andrea Brown, Andrea Brown Literary. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frighteningly real survival scenario. Alyssa Morrow is a 16-year-old junior in high school, the older sister to Garrett, and a neighbor and schoolmate of Kelton. It is also thoroughly effective as a study of how extreme circumstances can bring out people’s capacity for both panic and predation, ingenuity and altruism. 2, 2018 When a calamitous drought overtakes southern California, a group of teens must struggle to keep their lives and their humanity in this father-son collaboration. The lack of warning before the long-looming crisis breaks may require some initial suspension of disbelief, but the palpable desperation that pervades the plot as it thunders toward the ending feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability. DRY by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman RELEASE DATE: Oct. The dynamic core-character relationships are satisfying, and the intersection of their narrative with the snapshots adds depth to briefly glimpsed characters and illuminates the full scale of the disaster. This thriller alternates between the teens’ distinct and plausible viewpoints, occasionally supplementing with brief “snapshots” of others (a fleeing family, a news anchor) dealing with the escalating catastrophe.

Along the way, the siblings pick up three teens: their survivalist neighbor Kelton, unpredictable lone wolf Jacqui, and calculating opportunist Henry. When their parents vanish while seeking desalinated water, 16-year-old Alyssa and 10-year-old Garrett embark on a harrowing journey, searching for their parents and fending for themselves as society deteriorates. Dry Show full title By Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman 3.5 / 5 ( 239 ratings ) About this ebook The authors do not hold back. In Neal Shusterman ( Thunderhead) and son Jarrod’s near-future or alternate-present America, a prolonged drought (“the Tap-Out”) results in the sudden curtailment of Southern California’s water supply.

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