Epic Literary

Across three generations of a river valley family, a century of droughts, floods, and migrations is traced through the lives of its keepers — a slow, elegiac epic about how water, once gone, rewrites everyone who remembers it.

Across seven decades in the industrial city of Vessock, the public Marrowden Infirmary shelters the poor through epidemic and war, until a young physician must choose between the building that made her and the city that wants it gone.