Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands

Fiction. LET THE RIVERS CLAP THEIR HANDS is set in the rural Midwest. It draws on the physical landscape of the driftless zone that area of the Midwest untouched by glaciers as well as the interior landscape of those who live there. The two stories revolve around a grandmother and a granddaughter as the land around them is ravaged by man and by nature. There is a deep sense of history that runs through the book, and the past constantly returns in order to remind the characters that it is, even if not factually accurate, inescapable. The writing is predominantly realist, but always on the cusp of incorporating the supernatural."