Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.

“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
 

“A beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed.”—Jim Minick

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.