Watershed

by Percival Everett

Book Overview

A classic of politics, murder, and espionage

"Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller...In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn't just work, it flows." -- Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio

"It's hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett."―Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune

On a windswept landscape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807016276
• ISBN13: 9780807016275
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A mystery with a social conscience

Robert Hawks, a hydrologist, finds himself caught between the FBI and a Native American group in a mystery that deals with treaty rights, civil rights and water rights. Sounds a bit heavy doesn't it? But Everett pulls it all together in this book. Interspersed with actual treaty information, commentaries on peyote use, hydrology tables, this book moves effortlessly from the central mystery to Hawks' own past, filled with a distrust for authority, to Hawks' disastrous love life, Watershed seems to have a bit too much going on to be successful, but it is. Everettt builds the tension well and only the slightly pat ending interferes with the enjoyment of this book. But the journey is definitely worth your time.