Flood : a novel

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Label

Flood : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Melissa Scholes Young

Creator

• trueYoung, Melissa Scholes

Subject

• Self-realization -- Fiction
• Small cities -- Fiction
• trueSmall town life
• trueUnemployed women
• Domestic fiction
• trueDysfunctional families
• trueFamily relationships
• trueFloods
• trueFormer boyfriends
• Hannibal (Mo.) -- Fiction
• trueHannibal, Missouri
• Homecoming -- Fiction
• trueHomecomings
• trueHometowns
• trueLevees
• trueMississippi River
• truePoor people
• trueRacism
• trueSelf-discovery

Genre

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"A sparkling debut set in Mark Twain's boyhood town, Flood is a story of what it means to be lost . . . and found. Laura Brooks fled her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, ten years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak. Now she's returned unannounced, and her family and friends don't know what to make of it. She says she's just home for a brief visit and her high-school reunion, but she's carrying too much luggage for that: literal and metaphorical. Soon Laura is embroiled in small-town affairs--the contentious divorce of her rowdy best friend Rose; the campaign of her twelve-year-old godson, Bobby, to become the town's official Tom Sawyer; and the renewed interest of the man Laura once thought she'd marry, Sammy McGuire. Leaving town when she was eighteen had been Laura's only option. She feared a stifling existence in a town ruled by its past, its mythological devotion to Mark Twain, and the economic and racial divide that runs as deep as the Mississippi River. She can't forget that fateful Fourth of July when the levees broke or the decisions that still haunt her. Now as the Mississippi rises again, a deep wound threatens to reopen, and Laura must decide if running away once more might be the best way to save herself"--

Tone

• trueHeartwarming
• trueMoving
• trueStrong sense of place
• trueHopeful

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Character

• trueRelatable

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general