Watershed

A Novel

By: Mark Barr

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

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.

©2019 Mark Barr (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Fascinating read

A well told story of an interesting time in history. . . My family came from rural Tnn & surely electricity was a miracle.

Progress

A snipet of life in a small town USA and how advances in technology affect us.

I'm not sure if this was a good book or not.

I struggled with this book. I felt like it took too long to finish it. I'm still not really sure what the story was even about..

Hmmmm…

This book had potential….but just really don’t understand the point of it. I have so many unanswered questions. I was so irritated when I heard “the end”. That was not and ending! So glad it was a free one.

Wow wow wow wow

An extraordinary story that brings you to a time in history through such characters that touch you son much that you feel you are living it. Gloriously written and stunningly read!