"On the fourth month of the second year of the drought, which brought so much despair to our community, the weatherman began to grow his beard. . . ."
So begins Miles Harvey's The Drought, the story of a weatherman who brings hope to his small city on the plains as he reports every day on the severe weather that has overtaken their lives. The weatherman, obsessed with the drought, now pores over weather maps and studies historical precedents. He has also begun a dangerous affair with the wife of the barber whose shop is across the street from the news studio. The weatherman may just hold the key to bringing rain once more, but will his twin obsessions save the city or bring about his own destruction?
