Watershed

Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background--a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people--Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place.

Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed.

The arrival of electricity in the rural community--where violence, prostitution, and dog-fighting are commonplace--thrusts together the federal and local worlds, in an evocative feat of storytelling in the vein of Kent Haruf's Plainsong, and Ron Rash's Serena.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hub City Press
Published: 10/08/2019
ISBN: 9781938235597
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2019
Booklist 09/15/2019 pg. 22
BookPage 10/01/2019