No Water For the Desert is about 19-year-old Grace whose life, well… sucks. Her mother regularly hurls insults at her. She can't get over her gay ex-lover. But worst of all, she is riddled with guilt and shame from being raped at age eleven. Grace devises a plan to fix her life: she leaves her home town Milwaukee to live with her favorite, well-to-do aunt and uncle in the Californian Desert. Things start off well as Grace settles into her new home and community college. But little by little things sour between Grace and her aunt. Where they used to have so much in common, they now don't. Grace begins to resent her aunt's shallow expectations, e.g., how much weight to lose and concealer to apply, what kind of man to marry. Grace finds reprieve in her new and only friend, free spirited Gaycela, an amateur porn star. Even still, Grace's troubles compound, causing her to rethink her entire life. What will it take for Grace to take control over her life? Can she find the courage?

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