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Watershed

Author Percival Everett
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Beacon Press
On sale Mar 05, 2024 | 208 Pages | 9780807016275
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A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, and espionage by the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of James

On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.

Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.
Percival Everett is the author of over 30 books since his debut, Suder, was released in 1983. His modern classics include I Am Not Sidney Poitier, So Much Blue, Glyph, and The Trees. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at University of Southern California. Everett was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 with his novel Telephone. He received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards, the 2023 PEN America Award for Dr. No, and the 2024 National Book Award and 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for James.
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A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, and espionage by the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of James

On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.

Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.

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Percival Everett is the author of over 30 books since his debut, Suder, was released in 1983. His modern classics include I Am Not Sidney Poitier, So Much Blue, Glyph, and The Trees. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at University of Southern California. Everett was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 with his novel Telephone. He received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards, the 2023 PEN America Award for Dr. No, and the 2024 National Book Award and 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for James.
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