Reading: Marilynne Eichinger: The Water Factor
About The Water Factor:
A 2024 International Firebird Book Award winner for best dystopian novel and a Literary Titan Gold Award recipient for best thriller. The book is a confronting eco-thriller showing environmental devastation that will surprise and engross readers until the final page. The novel opens dramatically in 2039 with James Hokama Byrne, grandson of Chief Tahoma-Kiche, leading a team to steal water trucks and take them to the reservation where his grandparents live. The battle began years ago, when water was labeled a commodity rather than a right, and Glacier Oceanside joined the ranks of the world's largest water cartels. Top executives didn't count on being confronted by James Hokama Byrne, an employee the company mentored since his high school graduation. But delivering to drought-stricken farms and getting kidnapped in Ethiopia changed the young man's outlook. When the Glacier Oceanide started draining aquifers on his grandfather's reservation to send to bottling plants and marijuana farms, something within him snapped. He couldn't remain silent.
Marilynne Eichinger Marilynne Eichinger graduated in anthropology/sociology from Boston University and received a master’s degree in psychology from Michigan State University. Business acumen was learned on the job as founder of the Impression 5 Science Museum in Lansing, MI, President of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, and publisher of The Museum Tour Catalog, circulating to over a million households annually. She served on many community boards over her career. Eichinger serves as a Unitarian Universalist Lay minister and is a member of the Community for Earth Committee, an environmental action group. She is an acrylic painter and a prolific blogger. The Water Factor is her debut novel. Other publications include Lives of Museum Junkies, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at developing science centers with hands-on exhibits. Over the Peanut Fence, a memoir about Eichinger's experience with a twenty-year-old street boy. She contributed to Homeostasis and Novelty (2018), edited by Phillis Katz and Lucy Avraamidou. Eichinger writes extensively about issues surrounding environmental and social justice.
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