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We are in the midst of a profound legal shift: from New Zealand to India to Ecuador,...
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We are in the midst of a profound legal shift: from New Zealand to India to Ecuador, real-world laws have granted personhood to rivers. With a mix of magic and pathos, Open the Floodgates imagines this new reality with a new configuration of the human and other-than-human relationship.
In an unnamed California town, the River is granted personhood and has the right--and urgent need--to argue in court for its existence. But powerful, well-funded enemies are determined to keep the River exactly as it is: gunk-filled, toxic, a convenient dumping ground for waste. The story moves like water, entering the minds of the town's people, pigeons, deer, dogs, cats, the trees, the River's home, and the River itself. When the River moves, the text winds its way along the page, mimicking water. When the River is ultimately jailed, the town faces a reckoning: what do we owe the River? And the River must answer in turn: what, if anything, does it owe humans?
Author: Nina Schuyler
Publisher: Reverberations Books
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781634051040
About the Author
Schuyler, Nina: - Nina Schuyler is the author of four other fiction books and teaches creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies and the independent bookstore, Book Passage. Nina Schuyler's newest short story collection, In this Ravishing World, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections, and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. It was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and earned a law degree at UC Law San Francisco. She is also the author of How to Write Stunning Sentences and has an extensive following of her Substack newsletter of the same name.
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