The levee1983
(Blackwater II)
La digue
by Michael McDowell
To spite her new daughter-in-law Elinor, Mary-Love Caskey throws her support into building a levee that will halt the course of Elinor's beloved Perdido River. Elinor knows that the river is a force to be reckoned with, and that its wrath can only be appeased with bloodshed.
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