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“Blackwater is one of my favourite modern iterations of Southern Gothic fiction…Blackwater is currently published as one big novel, but really it’s a series of six novellas which tell the story of a family in Perdido, Alabama, situated against the Blackwater River. It’s a generational story; we see this family evolve over decades. The conceit is that in the early part of the 20th century, during a time when the river floods its banks and Perdido is partially submerged, two people rescue someone that they think is a woman trapped on the top floor of a building. In reality, she is a river monster – she can assume human form, but she’s a carnivorous, aquatic predator” Read more...
Nathan Ballingrud, Novelist
