Review: Dinan’s debut novel sounds climate change alarm

“Things You Would Know if You Grew Up Around Here,” by Nancy Wayson Dinan (Bloomsbury) You’ll find “Things You Would Know if You Grew Up Around Here” in the fiction section, but this debut novel from a doctoral candidate in fiction writing at Texas Tech is something more than that. An imagined story, sure, but it all takes place during a real-world event — the Memorial Day floods of 2015 in west-central Texas. There’s more than a little of…