Watershed, Mark Barr
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Watershed
A Novel

Author: Mark Barr

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

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.

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