Watershed

By Mark Barr

Book Overview

Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her 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 prostitution and dog-fighting are commonplace, thrusts together modern and backcountry values. In an evocative feat of storytelling in the vein of Kent Haruf's Plainsong , and Ron Rash's Serena , Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. As the townspeople embark on a biblical undertaking to harness elemental forces, Nathan and Claire are left to wonder what their lives will look like when the lights come on.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938235592
• ISBN13: 9781938235597
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Hub City Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"