"In The Lowering Days Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic
portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more
universal for its singularity. There's magic here." -Richard Russo,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are A
promising literary star makes his debut with this emotionally
powerful saga, set in 1980s Maine, that explores family love, the
power of myths and storytelling, survival and environmental
exploitation, and the ties between cultural identity and the land
we live on If you paid attention, you could see the entire
unfolding of human history in a story . . . Growing up, David
Almerin Ames and his brothers, Link and Simon, believed the wild
patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged
to them. Running down the state like a spine, the river shared its
name with the people of the Penobscot Nation, whose ancestral
territory included the entire Penobscot watershed-the land upon
which the Ames family eventually made their home. The brothers'
affinity for the natural world derives from their iconoclastic
parents, Arnoux, a romantic artist and Vietnam War deserter who
builds boats by hand, and Falon, an activist journalist who runs
The Lowering Days, a community newspaper which gives equal voice to
indigenous and white issues. But the boys' childhood reverie is
shattered when a bankrupt paper mill, once the Penobscot Valley's
largest employer, is burned to the ground on the eve of potentially
reopening. As the community grapples with the scope of the
devastation, Falon receives a letter from a Penobscot teenager
confessing to the crime-an act of justice for a sacred river under
centuries of assault. For the residents of the Penobscot Valley,
the fire reveals a stark truth. For many, the mill is a lifeline,
providing working class jobs they need to survive. Within the
Penobscot Nation, the mill is a bringer of death, spewing toxic
chemicals and wastewater products that poison the river's fish and
plants. As the divide within the community widens, the building
anger and resentment explodes in tragedy, wrecking the lives of
David and those around him. Evocative and atmospheric, pulsating
with the rhythms of the natural world, The Lowering Days is a
meditation on the flow and weight of history, the power and
fragility of love, the dangerous fault lines underlying families,
and the enduring land where stories are created and told.
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