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AFTER THE DAM

Amy Hassinger

Undone by motherhood, judged by her husband, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees with her baby in the middle of the night for the one place on earth that's been her refuge: her grandmother's lakehouse in northern Wisconsin. Hoping to reconnect with a former, healthier self, she instead faces a confused and dying grandmother, her controlling and possibly gold-digging nurse, and a changed ex-boyfriendher first and most passionate love. As a constant rain threatens the nearby dam, Rachel struggles to discern what's happened to the past, who she's become, and what kind of a life she will make for herself nowone that clings to ghosts or opens bravely to a wild new geography.

Amy Hassinger is the author of Nina: Adolescence (Blue Hen Trade, 2004) and The Priest's Madonna (Putnam Adult, 2006). Her writing has been translated into five languages and has won awards from Creative Nonfiction, Publisher's Weekly, and the Illinois Arts Council. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches in the University of Nebraska's MFA in Writing Program.

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Book Published 2016-09-01 by Red Hen Press

Comments

After the Dam is a story about discovering the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Amy Hassinger's lyrical prose is a joy to read. Karen Shoemaker, author of The Meaning of Names and Night Sounds and Other Stories

Lush with description, After the Dam draws us beneath the surface of its characters' lives into an undertow of emotional conflict that makes you feel you are immersed in the minds and hearts of people you know. It's a compelling read that's hard to put down once you have been drawn into its tide. Richard Duggin, author of Why Won't You Talk to Me? and The Music Box Treaty

Taut, beautifully written, and suspenseful, this resonant, feminist drama eschews easy answers. A page-turner of the highest caliber. (starred review)