Still Water

Bol

Ten years after The Rise flooded the lower third of Sorrow Bend, the town still keeps its records.Every Tuesday morning, Marcus Tilley sets up his produce tables in the southeast corner of the market lot. He grows winter greens in a greenhouse he built after the flood, keeps careful ledgers, and avoids talking about the things that hurt.Then his daughter comes back.Cora Tilley arrives from St. Louis to settle her late mother's estate and sell the old Cedar Street house before returning to the life she built elsewhere. The plan is practical. Efficient. Temporary.But Sorrow Bend is a town built on people who kept showing up long after leaving would have been easier.As the days pass, Cora finds herself drawn into the quiet rhythms of the town she thought she had outgrown - the Tuesday markets, the greenhouse before dawn, the people who stayed, and the unfinished grief waiting inside the house her mother left behind.When a state buyout program offers a clean way to erase the property from the map forever, Cora must decide whether some places deserve more than efficiency.Still Water is a quiet literary novel about inheritance, continuity, grief, and the small acts that keep people connected across time.For readers of Elizabeth Strout, Kent Haruf, Anne Tyler, and Marilynne Robinson.

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Pages: 160, Paperback, Independently published