"Trenton Lee Stewart's characters are as real as the water rising about 
them, and they observe much you'll find you've been missing, even in 
Faulkner."—Rick Harsch, author of The Driftless Trilogy

"In prose by turns startling and delicate, Stewart explores natural 
disaster—including love and its attendant hardships—with passion 
and exquisite devotion. A beautiful, memorable book that introduces 
us to a brilliant new writer."—Mary O'Connell, author of Living with 
Saints

In Trenton Lee Stewart's debut novel, a young man holed up in a 
decrepit trailer in tiny Lockers Creek, Arkansas, considers himself a 
failure. He has bad knees, flat tires, a dying cat, and no plans. As 
incessant rain becomes a brutal storm and a flood claims the 
countryside, he meets a fierce young woman trying to start a new life. 
Together they're forced to reconsider their respective pasts—confronting 
secrets they'd rather not disturb.

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TRENTON LEE STEWART has published fiction in The Georgia Review, 
The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, and The 
Chattahoochee Review. He is the author of a forthcoming children's 
novel, The Mysterious Benedict Society. An Arkansas native, he now 
lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.



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"A writer with eye and ear and heart and brain enough to tell us true and 
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