Eaten by the Day
Almeida Springs sells the most honest thing on earth - water - wrapped in the most beautiful lie: that a company draining its aquifer four times faster than the rain can refill it is "water-positive by design."
Maya Boateng, Director of Sustainability, has four different voices for four different kinds of meeting and one true sentence she has never been allowed to say out loud. Sara Vance, the twenty-three-year-old intern in flats and a library tote, has a stranger habit: she reads the page no one reads. And on a street corner outside the glass tower, an old man holds a sign no one will look at - the water economist this family quietly buried forty years ago, whose vanished plan could turn the whole disaster around.
What follows is one year of small revolts inside a beautiful building: a single mother's shut-off tap, a buried appendix, a barista who refuses to laugh at the parts that aren't jokes, a perpetual-quitter who can't quite leave, and the thirty seconds - in front of nine million people - when the truth finally refuses to sink.
Wickedly funny and unexpectedly tender, Eaten by the Day is a novel about the people a building digests one ordinary day at a time - about credit and erasure, water and worth - and about what it costs, and what it takes, to walk back out undigested, awake, and reaching for the next true thing.
"What's wet with water? Nothing. It was always us."
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