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From critically acclaimed writer of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative book of a family in turmoil, establish against the background of real-life historical event - the story of three days in the summertime of 1936, as a government-built dam is going to flood an Appalachian town, and a little girl goes missing. A river called Long Man has coursed through East Tennessee from forever, taking sustenance to the people who farm along its finance institutions and who trade among its small cities. But as Long Man starts, the Tennessee Valley Authority's plans to dam the river and flood the city of Yuneetah for the sake of progress - to bring electricity and jobs to the region - are going to take effect. Just a couple days remain prior to the river will go up, and the majority of the city has been evacuated. Among the list of holdouts is a young, headstrong mom, Annie Clyde Dodson, whose ancestors have lived for generations on her behalf mountaintop farm; she'll do anything to ensure that her three-year-old child, Gracie, will inherit the family's land. But her man wants to produce a fresh start in Michigan, where he's found work that will bring the family a far more secure future. As the deadline looms, a storm as powerful as the emotions between them rages outside their door. Abruptly they recognize that Gracie is nowhere found. Has the little girl simply wandered off into the rain? Or has she been taken by Amos, the inexplicable drifter who has get back to Yuneetah, perhaps to save lots of his hometown in a final, desperate work of assault? Suspenseful, visceral, gorgeously told, Long Man is a searing family portrait of a tight-knit community helped bring jointly by change and problems, and of one family facing a terrifying ticking time. A novel occur history that resonates with this own times, this is a dazzling and remarkable tour de force.
