{"product_id":"watershed-9781938235597","title":"Watershed","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet 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--\u003cem\u003eWatershed\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNathan, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003ePlainsong\u003c\/em\u003e, and Ron Rash's \u003cem\u003eSerena\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hub City Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938235597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2019 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mark Barr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671316459676,"sku":"9781938235597","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_239276b1-434f-4a44-816e-06b12dd772d3.jpg?v=1603925077","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/watershed-9781938235597","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}