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.
- Author
- Mark Barr
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Hub City Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781938235597
- Settings
- Tennessee River Valley, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
- Genres
- fiction, historical, southern
- Release date
- 2019
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