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No More Empty Spaces

A Novel

by D.J. Green
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It's 1973 and Will Ross, a divorced American geologist, has signed on to work on a troubled dam in a remote, rugged part of Turkey. He decides to take his children with him, but they think they're only going for their usual two-week stint of shared custody, not to live there. Once in Turkey, Will struggles for control—of his family, his work, the landscape the dam is to be built on, and, ultimately, himself. Alongside these emotional conflicts, he, his children, and everyone else involved in the dam face powerful external forces—of erosion, dissolution, landslides, and earthquakes. Whether they let themselves see it or not, natural hazards impact their lives every day. And so do their intractable human natures. Science can help them understand those forces and engineering can help control them, but each character gradually comes to realize that the landscape they stand upon, and the landscapes of their lives, will shift and shake regardless of the choices they make. The question, then, is: how will they respond?
Timely and gripping, No More Empty Spaces will make you think about how you relate to yourself, your family, and the Earth and its ever-changing processes.

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    April 9, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781647426170

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2024
      In Green's debut novel, a geologist seeks fulfillment at a dam site in Turkey. In Turkey, 1973, American geologist Will Ross has come to the remote village of Kayakale, where a vast dam is being built to harness the hydroelectric power of the mighty Euphrates. As the project's chief foundation geologist, Will must "read the story in the rocks" beneath the dam--a story that, so far, has been giving the engineers nightmares. Will planned to come alone, but a last-minute complication (involving his ex-wife's alcoholism) requires Will to bring his three children--15-year-old Kevin, 12-year-old Rob, and 4-year-old Didi--along with him for the remainder of the project. The children are not happy to have their lives uprooted from suburban New Jersey and dropped into a compound in the middle of the Turkish wilderness. The lone bright spot is the presence of Paula, a peppy young teacher from West Virginia who offers Will and the kids some kindness as they acclimate to their new surroundings. The whole project is put on pause until Will can figure out the cause of the mysterious voids that exist in the rock beneath the site, threatening the dam's stability. The problem turns out to be larger and stranger than Will anticipated, and it may require more than mere scientific know-how to fix, even as his family's situation teeters as precariously as the ground beneath his feet. Green's prose is tender and keenly observant: "They ambled up to the base of a tower of tuff where ocher striations crisscrossed pure white rock, as if a painter had stroked a brush across it. The light moved over it as the sun rose, making the lines dance on the rock's surface." In the wonders of subterranean rock formations, Green finds an apt metaphor for Will's unplumbed psyche, painting a portrait of a man desperate to keep his life from being crushed beneath the pressure of life's obligations. A fascinating and frequently moving novel of family and geology.

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