Loud Water

<p>Eight years into a 15-year sentence, Crit Poppwell finally discovered something he was good at, besides destroying his family and abusing drugs. He found art. The solitary act of drawing, painting… Lue lisää <p>Eight years into a 15-year sentence, Crit Poppwell finally discovered something he was good at, besides destroying his family and abusing drugs. He found art. The solitary act of drawing, painting and creating brings a calmness and separation from the prison chaos. A dreadlocked Dominican nun who teaches art classes behind-bars encourages Crit to paint <em>the "truth in things. " </em>She even helps him parole out, back to "bloody" Breathitt County where his brother is the reigning crystal meth kingpin and his ex-wife wants him dead for an unforgivable past crime that haunts his every heartbeat forward. </p><p>Crit returns to his Appalachian hometown with ringing tinnitus in his ear from a prison brawl, and a desire to change his DNA. But he soon meets a hot-mess substance abuser and her son, and his reluctant, then fully committed desire to help her puts him in the crosshairs of his brother's wrath. </p><p>Can Crit flush the past from his blood and bones and use his newfound creativity to change his life and save others? Or die trying? </p><p>Critical acclaim for LOUD WATER: </p><p>"Robby Henson's prose crackles with the raw-boned, rough-edged hardness of the Eastern Kentucky landscape, intensely capturing the desperate victims seeking to escape its unforgiving hold. .. whether through an act of redemption or an act of revenge. A visceral Southern Gothic Noir. " -Charles Edward Pogue, screenwriter of <em>The Fly</em>, <em>Dragonheart</em>, and <em>Psycho III</em></p><p>"Sins of the past litter the backroads of rural Kentucky in this powerful Southern Gothic noir. Redemption is a hard thing to come by. Henson writes like William Faulkner's Kentucky cousin and reminds us what great writing really looks like. " -John Morrissey, producer of <em>American History X</em>, <em>Havoc</em>, and <em>There Are No Saints</em></p><p>"A brilliant noir debut with a bittersweet ending. " -Jim Winter, author of the Holland Bay series</p><p>"<em>Loud Water </em>by Robby Henson grabs you by the collar and yanks you into rural Kentucky on a head-over-heels tumbled journey of crime, redemption, and hard-scrabble characters. Henson has produced some of the most stylized writing I've ever read, a perfect match for the rocky countryside he describes. " -Jack Getze, author of <em>Making Hearts </em>and other novels</p>