Nothing could hold back the Mississippi that summer. Jackson
Island, which jutted up out of the river as an overgrown sand bar,
was completely submerged. The island, immortalized by Mark Twain,
wasn't very big to begin with, though Huckleberry Finn and Jim
found it to be plenty. Water was what people talked about, worried
over, and watched. Upstream and downstream, levees busted by force
and sabotage. The river's to blame. When you grow up on the banks
in Hannibal, Missouri, you need an escape route. You never know
when the water is going to rise and you have to run. Laura Brooks
has come home to Hannibal: a place that ten years ago she couldn't
wait to leave. Growing up she felt stifled in this town ruled by
its past, its hokey devotion to everything Twain, the
small-mindedness of its inhabitants, and the rich/poor divide that
runs as deep as the Mississippi River. What really drove her away,
though, was the complicated demise of her love affair with Sammy,
that fateful 4th of July when the levees broke. Laura hasn't kept
much in touch with Hannibal since she fled, and her family - her
lottery-playing, chicken-keeping Mama, her sweet deadbeat brother
Trey, and no-nonsense Aunt Betty, hairdresser and cookie-baker
extraordinaire - don't know what to make of it when Laura turns up
all but unannounced. Things haven't been going so well for Laura in
her grown-up life in Florida, and while she claims she's just home
for a brief trip to take in Hannibal's high school reunion, she's
carrying way too much luggage for that: literal and metaphorical.
As Laura gets embroiled in small-town goings-on once more - such as
her godson's campaign to be crowned this year's Tom Sawyer- Laura
starts to heal from recent wounds. But when Sammy reappears on the
scene, a deeper wound threatens to reopen. Now, with the
Mississippi rising, her high school reunion looming, and a second
chance at love, Laura wonders if running away again might be the
only answer.
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