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For years Lizzie Benson has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Shea�TMs become famous for her podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she wonders what it means to keep tending your own garden once youa�TMve seen the flames beyond its walls. All the while the voices of the city keep floating in a�" funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.