The Flood

Tired of her husband, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees Illinois in the middle of the night with her baby, to reach the only place she considers a possible refuge: her grandmother's farm in Wisconsin. But her dying grandmother wants to leave her estate to her caregiver, Diane Bishop, a member of the Ojibwe Native American tribe, expropriated from her land following the construction of a dam imposed by... the Clayborne family.
Overwhelmed by the striking beauty of the place and her reunion with her first love, Rachel is swept into an existential whirlwind: should she fight to keep her childhood home? Or return it to the Bishops for the sake of justice?
A family saga and intimate drama, The Flood, through sensitive and lyrical writing, highlights what the dam destroyed: the magnificent natural environment and the Ojibwe way of life. With subtlety, Amy Hassinger evokes the demiurgic madness of humankind and the annihilation of Native American culture.