He would sit on the unswept floorboards letting home sink back into him, listening to the crows cawing in the locusts and the of Beulah Kesterson's goats carried downhill. He would clear away the leaves drifted against the door. "He would stand under the shade trees until it felt like he'd never left. She tried to push off the weight of her sadness and appreciate his silent companionship." She knew that it was the last time she would ever be with her son, whichever one of them departed first. It occurred to Beulah that love was so often a burden. "Walking beside Amos as if nothing had happened was bittersweet. I am in love with her writing, her observations, her beauty and the gift that she left us with this novel. Greene writes with a maturity and a splendor that I have barely witnessed. The loss of community for the sake of progress. A village that nobody cares for but for its inhabitants provides them with scarce material sustenance but plenty of spiritual nurturance. This book was sheer perfection in every way.īased on historical events this takes place over a few days in 1936 in East Tennessee in a village called Yuneetah that is meeting its death due to the building of a dam and the bringing of electricity.Įvents collide- a drifter returns, a little girl disappears, an eccentric aunt confronts her past and future, a sheriff protects, a young city man marvels and respects and learns about the wisdom of the hardworking poor, a mother is brave and steadfast, a father that aches with loneliness and longing. It is a dazzling and unforgettable tour de force.ĥ "earthy, transcendent, mind-blowing" stars !!Ģ016 Silver Award -2nd Favorite Read (Tie) Has she simply wandered off into the rain? Or has she been taken by Amos, the mysterious drifter who has come back to town, perhaps to save it in a last, desperate act of violence? Suspenseful, visceral, gorgeously told, Long Man is a searing portrait of a tight-knit community brought together by change and crisis, and of one family facing a terrifying ticking clock. Suddenly, they realize that Gracie has gone missing. As the deadline looms, a storm as powerful as the emotions between them rages outside their door. But her husband wants to make a fresh start in Michigan, where he has found work that will secure the family's future. Among the holdouts is a young mother, Annie Clyde Dodson, whose ancestors have lived for generations on her mountaintop farm she'll do anything to ensure that her three-year-old daughter, Gracie, will inherit the family's land. ![]() Just one day remains before the river will rise, and most of the town has been evacuated. But as Long Man opens, the Tennessee Valley Authority's plans to dam the river and flood the town of Yuneetah for the sake of progress-to bring electricity and jobs to the hardscrabble region-are about to take effect. ![]() From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel drawn from real-life historical events: the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a government-built dam is about to flood an Appalachian town-and a little girl goes missing.Ī river called Long Man has coursed through East Tennessee from time immemorial, bringing sustenance to the people who farm along its banks and who trade between its small towns.
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