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Flood: A Novel, Young, Melissa Scholes, New condition, Book
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- 9781478970781
- Book Title
- Flood : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Center Street
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, General, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 18.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Nothing could hold back the Mississippi that summer. Jackson Island, which jutted up out of the river as an overgrown sand bar, was completely submerged. The island, immortalized by Mark Twain, wasn't very big to begin with, though Huckleberry Finn and Jim found it to be plenty. Water was what people talked about, worried over, and watched. Upstream and downstream, levees busted by force and sabotage. The river's to blame. When you grow up on the banks in Hannibal, Missouri, you need an escape route. You never know when the water is going to rise and you have to run. Laura Brooks has come home to Hannibal: a place that ten years ago she couldn't wait to leave. Growing up she felt stifled in this town ruled by its past, its hokey devotion to everything Twain, the small-mindedness of its inhabitants, and the rich/poor divide that runs as deep as the Mississippi River. What really drove her away, though, was the complicated demise of her love affair with Sammy, that fateful 4th of July when the levees broke. Laura hasn't kept much in touch with Hannibal since she fled, and her family - her lottery-playing, chicken-keeping Mama, her sweet deadbeat brother Trey, and no-nonsense Aunt Betty, hairdresser and cookie-baker extraordinaire - don't know what to make of it when Laura turns up all but unannounced. Things haven't been going so well for Laura in her grown-up life in Florida, and while she claims she's just home for a brief trip to take in Hannibal's high school reunion, she's carrying way too much luggage for that: literal and metaphorical. As Laura gets embroiled in small-town goings-on once more - such as her godson's campaign to be crowned this year's Tom Sawyer- Laura starts to heal from recent wounds. But when Sammy reappears on the scene, a deeper wound threatens to reopen. Now, with the Mississippi rising, her high school reunion looming, and a second chance at love, Laura wonders if running away again might be the only answer.
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Publisher
Center Street
ISBN-10
1478970782
ISBN-13
9781478970781
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Flood : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Ps3625
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Flood is character-driven fiction that appeals on both a gut and an emotional level. Melissa Scholes Young tackles difficult situations and never veers into cliché. Her endings are sublime. And her characters are as believable as anybody's friends and neighbors. I marvel at her poetic language, her accumulation of details, and her uncanny ability to key on exactly what it is that makes a story. She has admirable range and creates real people with depth, plus plot points that stick in the heart and mind. -- Richard Peabody, author of The Richard Peabody Reader, editor and publisher of Gargoyle Magazine and Paycock Press, After running from her hometown of Hannibal, MO, Laura Brooks has returned, broken and depressed from losing her job and a pregnancy. Not much has changed at home: the town faces yet another torrential flood that could ruin families; her mother and brother live in the same rundown trailer; and her best friend Rose is still wild and irresponsible. And then there's Sammy, Laura's old love whom she left without a word when the levees broke and the town flooded ten years ago. Facing embarrassment and criticism, Laura struggles to put her life back on track even while she's pulled into Rose's divorce battle, her brother's drug habit, and Sammy's rekindled interest in her. A new job and increasing responsibilities might keep Laura in town, but will the memories of their old love and her dreams of something better get in the way of rebuilding her life in Hannibal? Young will leave readers thinking about their own flood of memories in this debut novel. Perfect for those who liked Tommy Lee Tyson's They Tell Me of a Home and H.P. Munrow's Saving Grace. -- Library Journal, Melissa Scholes Young is immensely talented. Her eye is clear and her powers are on high. I read Flood with admiration and growing excitement. I so strongly recommend her. Read her, now!-- Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North and Water Museum
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-285312
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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