• Faroze Ahmad Chopan
• Pooja Gupta

Claire Vaye Watkins’s fiction is impregnated with rumination of inception and cessation. Her persona moves from impeccability to experience. Yet eloquent climaxes are often perverted and vetoed. Watkins’s colloquy of fiction riveted upon the apocalyptic ambience of coeval fiction. In a much espied essay, she suggests the novel, if not literature well-nigh, if not the printed words up-to-the-hilt, hers by this extremity of the world just about shot its bolt. She alludes that the very conglomerate of story-telling is apocalypticin substance and at the same time may be an initiative of thwarting the apocalypse. In this novel, several locus-classics of narrative ultimatelyserve to exemplify her point. Climate alteration is the delineating repercussion of our time and we are at a sketching moment. From stirring weather patterns that menaces food production to rising sea levels that aggrandize the peril of catastrophic deluge, the impacts of climate change are global in amplitude and unprecedented in scale. Without draconian action today acclimating to these impacts in the future will be more arduous and pricey. Ephemeral droughts are a recently sighted type of remotest juncture discerned by abrupt onset and breakneck intensification of drought conditions with rigorous effects. The booming cognizance that ephemeral droughts necessitate pernickety processes and rigorous effcets and as much as not a clime change gamut, make them a clamant bound for research monitoring and prognosis. Claire Vaye Watkins perjures a peregrination through a near future California colonized by Mad Maxish revelers and sun-drunk survivors of climate alteration in her debut novel. Since gold-rush times California has been a stalemate for the restive, the propitious and the forlorn in search of opulence, Hollywood, laurels or just fruit- picking work: gold, fame and citrus that caricatured in the pioneers are the things of the past mere flashes in the pan. But now California is dry, archly dry. Claire presents our future is parched and in this novel, there is an attempted evade from a drought ravaged California. California repeatedly catches the brunt of the authorial contrivance.

apocalyptic, ambiance, Battleborn, Amargosa Dune Sea,MadMax-ish

"An Apocalyptic Ambiance of Will-O'-The-Wisp in Gold Fame Citrus", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 5, page no.1013-1018, May-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06162.pdf

"An Apocalyptic Ambiance of Will-O'-The-Wisp in Gold Fame Citrus", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 5, page no. pp1013-1018, May-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06162.pdf